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17-19 Havelock St ST. KILDA

Constructed 1920's

Category Residential:attached Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

The strength of the Arts and Crafts influence captured in this duplex makes it one of the best of its kind in St Kilda. Significant features include the boldly proportioned front gable, cleverly interpenetrated by the two bow windows with the base chord of the pediment continuing through as a horizontal division between the casement sashes and the fanlights. This triangle, emphasised by its roughcast finish, is bisected by a party wall which terminates just below its base chord in an elegant point and ball. The scalloped timber of the side verandahs is integrated into the composition with comparable skill. The building is largely intact, though the fences are not original.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : Arts and Crafts Duplex

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations

A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References unknown

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

"Hawsleigh Court"

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2010

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2B Hawsleigh Ave BALACLAVA

Constructed 1928

Category Residential:apartment Designer Hugh Philip

Amendment C 32 Comment

Landscape assessment

Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

An impressive residential complex arranged around a broad and pleasant garden courtyard. Its refined architecture is notable for its soft roughcast walls, restrained classical motifs, crisp detailing and high degree of intactness.

Landscape: The main garden element of the Mediterranean style two storey walk up flats is the central courtyard garden which includes two mature Liquidambers (Liquidamber styraciflua), a silver birch and a bed of camellias. It is of historic and aesthetic significance to the locality of Balaclava. They are also of significance for their association with the building Hawsleigh Court, possibly designed by the architect Hugh Philip.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : Mediterranean Two storey walk-up flats with a central courtyard.

Original owner: Henry Gibson

History see Description.

Thematic Context

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme, including tree controls

References NOTES St K C C permit No 7225.

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Attic Villa

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6 Heaton Ave ELWOOD

Constructed 1921

Category Residential:detached Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

A crisply massed attic villa in the English Vernacular revival style, this house is not of particular individual significance but is an important element in the Heaton Avenue streetscape. The low front fence is not original but is appropriate in scale to the house. The overpainting of the render, shingle and face brickwork detracts from the building's significance.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : Arts and Crafts Attic villa

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References unknown

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Attic Villa

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9 Heaton Ave ELWOOD

Constructed 1921

Category Residential:detached Designer J.R.C. Blanche

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

This building, though constructed in 1921, is comparable in style to typical single ridged Federation Arts and Crafts bungalows. The stylistic character of the building is advanced somewhat by the broad bay window of the lower facade which appears to follow American Prairie School influences. In general, however, this house is less of significance individually than for its contribution to the streetscape in this key location.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : Arts and Crafts Attic villa Builder: R. Sloane Original owner: W.E. Brand

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended Conservation

References NOTES St K C C permit No. 4658 issued November 1921

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Attic Villa

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10 Hennessy Ave ELWOOD

Constructed 1920

Category Residential:detached Designer Arthur W. Plaisted

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance A representative example of the work of noted architect A W Plaisted and a good example of a fusion of English Arts and Crafts and the American Californian styles. The drum shaped corner bay intersected by a corner buttress is a bold and unusual handling of this motif and the arched entrance porch with its keystone contributes to the character of the building. The buttressing, chimney design and infusion of classical motifs such as the keystone are characteristic of English Arts and Crafts influences. The shingling, dominant gables and low pitched roof are characteristic of American West Coast bungalow styles. The house is part of a fine group of bungalows of around the same period in this part of Hennessy Avenue.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : Arts and Crafts Attic villa Original owner: J Russel This house is an example of the work of architect A W Plaisted, an important architect in the St Kilda area responsible for a large number of buildings the best known being Hartpury Court in Milton Street. This is a minor example of his work, which appears to have gone through a number of transformations from building permit stage to final construction, including the transformation of an original design for a single ridge bungalow into a small attic villa. The composition is distinctive though made clumsy by the adaptation of a simpler earlier design. The drum shaped bay window intersected by a buttress is a distinctive element of the composition.

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References NOTES St K C C permit No. 4345

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Attic Villa

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11 Hennessy Ave ELWOOD

Constructed 1925

Category Residential:detached Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

Number 11 Hennessy Avenue is an excellent example of a cross-ridged attic villa in the English Arts and Crafts style. The building stands out from others of this genre for the subtlety and wit of its composition, in particular the complex bracketing of the attic window to the east gable, the asymmetrical placement of a buttress/chimney breast to the north elevation and the recurrent theme of pairing that occurs in the placement of windows. The house is an important part of the Hennessy Street streetscape though the high, solid masonry front fence detracts from its role.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : Arts and Crafts Attic villa

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions:

Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References unknown

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

"Rothermere" now "Sherwood Hall"

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Rothermere

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14 Hennessy Ave ELWOOD

Constructed 1890-1891

Category Residential:detached Designer David C. Askew of Twentyman and Askew

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

Rothmere, now called Sherwood Hall, is of note for the historical basis of its construction, for its illustration of the nature of land development in St. Kilda and Elwood in the early decades of this century, whilst being architecturally typical of mansions of its era.

Primary Source David Bick in conjunction with Wilson Sayer Core Pty. Ltd., St. Kilda Conservation Study Area 2 Vol. 1, 1984

Other Studies Description see History

History Joseph Cowen Syme was in partnership with his uncle David, running the Age newspaper from 1878 till 1890. The stormy relationship ended when David Syme bought Joseph out for ÂŁ140,000, resulting in the construction of the 45 room mansion Rothmere during the latter half of 1890 and first half of 1891. J.C. Syme's forceful character is further illustrated by the court case which followed in 1892, when the contractor sued Syme (and won). He still lived there in the 1910's and his widow Laura until the 1920's, when the building was converted into a guest house. The grounds were subdivided in the later 1920's, Hennessy and Wimbledon Avenues being extended through the estate. Currently the building is flats.

David C. Askew of the firm Twentyman and Askew was the Architect for Rothermere and Thomas Machin the contractor. The contract was for ÂŁ8,900.

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Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: National Estate Register Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References City of St. Kilda Rate Books, various years; 1890/91 no. 2009, J.C. Syme, 45 rooms brick (unfinished) Appendix.

City of St. Kilda subdivision plans, draw 18, plan no. 54 - Appendix.

'Australasian Builder and Contractor's News', Melbourne, 17/June/1980, p. 1106, tenders.

'Australasian Builder and Contractor's News', Melbourne, 4/June/1892, p. 398, Legal News - Appendix C.E. Sayers, "David Syme (1827-1908)" in Bede Bairn (ed.), 'Australian Dictionary of Biography', Melbourne University Press, 1976, vol. 6, pp. 232-236 - Appendix.

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23 Hotham Grove ELSTERNWICK

Constructed 1887

Category Residential:detached Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

The villa at 23 Hotham Grove, Elsternwick, was built in 1887 for Alfred Ramsden. It is important as a representative substantial house of its period, being larger than the other houses in its immediate vicinity and possibly linked with the bricklayer/ developer of the late Boom period, A. Ramsden of Richmond .

Primary Source Andrew Ward, City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998

Other Studies Description A representative substantial late Victorian Italianate asymmetrical stuccoed villa with two storeyed cast iron lace verandah and faceted window bay to the projecting wing. There is a hipped tiled roof and vermiculated cement spandrels over the lower level arched windows to the bay. The front doorway is arched and has associated stained glass work. Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.

History At Crown land sales, J.M. Holloway purchased portions 259, 268 and 269 which consisted of about 11 acres of the wedge of land where Brighton Road and Hotham Street met. Holloway of Northampton Buildings in Acland Street, subsequently had the area surveyed for a housing estate by surveyor, S.W. Smith. Each allotment had two frontages or the benefit of a magnificent Right-of-Way, 15ft wide.

Hotham Grove at the time was named Susan Street. With some amendments, the sale of land later went ahead. John Reynolds, a gentleman of Winsdor, purchased all of Susan Street.

On the north side at the point where the street dog legged, Alfred Ramsden bought lots 12 and 13A-F and in 1887, built a six roomed brick house on lot 13C. The house had an NAV of 65 pounds. In that year, the

street name changed to Hotham Grove. Ramsden may have been the bricklayer/developer of Richmond who is known to have arrived in Melbourne in 1885 and built "villas, stores and cottages in Armadale and Richmond, and many more in the City" (see Sutherland A., "Victoria and its Metropolis Past and Present" (1888), v.2, p.651).

By 1891, the house and land were being leased to Peter Brady, a livery stable keeper. The number and nature of outbuildings shown on early MMBW plans suggest Brady ran his business from the site.

Brady, who progressed to the rank of cab proprietor, continued to lease the house in 1900, however by then, ownership had passed to the Victorian Permanent Building Society. The house had been extended to ten rooms and the NAV was 50 pounds. Two lots on the south of the property had by then been sold.

Thematic Context 4. Building settlements, towns and cities. 4.1.2 Making suburbs.

Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme.

References St. Kilda Rate Books: 1887-91, 1889-1900. VPRS 2335, PROV. MMBW litho plan no.48, undated.

Parish Plan of Prahran, Borough of St. Kilda. SLV, Map Section, 820 bje J.E.S.Vardy, Plan of the Borough of St. Kilda, c.1873, South/14. “Plan of Subdivision of Portions 259, 268 and 269 Parish of Prahran�, undated. SLV, Map Section, Vale Collection, Book 4A, P.172.

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

"Hood's Court" Flats

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2330

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2 Hood Street ELWOOD

Constructed 1927

Category Residential:apartment Designer unknown

Amendment C 54 Comment

New citation

Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

What is Significant?

Erected c.1927, the Hood’s Court Flats, at 2 Hood Street, Elwood, is a double-storey rendered brick block of flats with a jerkinhead roof and a symmetrical façade articulated by plain piers and enriched with panels of chevron clinker brickwork.

How is it Significant?

The Hood’s Court flats are of aesthetic significance to the City of Port Phillip.

Why is it Significant?

Aesthetically, the flats are significant for their highly unusual design, in particular its carefully considered façade that incorporates a number of stylistic influences and elements without actually creating a discordant or cluttered result. Its symmetry, regular fenestration and tall smooth rendered piers reveal an apparent Classical influence, while the roughcast render, clinker brick and jerkinhead roof (a rare element amongst Elwood’s apartment blocks) evoke the bungalow style, and the inset panels of chevron-pattern brickwork recall the Tudor Revival. Occupying a corner site, the building remains as a distinctive element in the streetscape, enhanced by a setting that includes an equally unusual rendered front fence, with squat cube-like piers and a curving dwarf wall.

Primary Source Heritage Alliance, Elwood Heritage Review, 2005

Other Studies Description Hood’s Court Flats, at 2 Hood Street, Elwood, is a double-storey brick building on a corner site, containing four flats. It has a distinctive jerkinhead roof, clad in red Marseilles pattern terracotta tiles. The Pozieres

Street frontage is utilitarian, with a painted finish and rectangular windows with soldier brick sills, rendered lintels and double-hung sashes with leaded glazing. The Hood Street frontage, by contrast, has much architectural enrichment. Its symmetrical façade is divided into three bays by smooth rendered piers, with a row of smaller clinker brick piers across the gable end. The central bay has a wide window at the upper level and, at ground floor, a half-glazed timber door and sidelights, sheltered by a projecting concrete hood on plain brackets. The spandrel between is roughcast rendered, with a bordered panel bearing the name HOOD’S COURT in raised lettering. The two flanking bays have a tripartite timber-framed window at each level, and roughcast spandrels with panels of tuckpointed clinker brickwork in a chevron pattern.

Along the Hood Street frontage, the flats have a low roughcast-rendered brick wall with smooth-rendered capping, made up of squat cube-like piers, curved walling, and taller gateposts with two pairs of letter box slots.

History Hood’s Court flats were evidently erected during 1927, as they first appear in the Sands & McDougall Directory in 1928. At that time (and, indeed, subsequently), they were listed simply as ‘Hood’s Court Flats’, with no record of individual occupants.

Thematic Context The flats at 2 Hood Street are of significance for their idiosyncratic aesthetic qualities, and have no directly comparative examples within the City of Port Phillip. The flats incorporate a number of individual elements that are unusual in this particular context. The dominant jerkinhead roof, for example, is a rarely used in apartment design in Elwood, being more commonly associated with large detached houses in other parts of the municipality, such as 16-16A Selwyn Ave, St Kilda (1914) or 175 Hotham Street, Balaclava (1923), or with smaller bungalow-style houses or duplexes (eg 4-6 McCrae Street, Elwood). Similarly, the use of inset panels of non-horizontal brickwork is also unusual in a fully rendered building such as this, being more commonly seen in Tudor Revival buildings that are erected entirely or primarily of face brickwork (eg flats at 26 Lansdowne Street, St Kilda, of 1935).

Recommendations Recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme.

References Sands & McDougall Directory. Various.

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House

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"Arden"

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2331

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2 Hotham Grove RIPPONLEA

Constructed 1889

Category Residential:detached Designer unknown

Amendment C 54 Comment

New citation

Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

What is Significant?

The house at 2 Hotham Grove, Ripponlea, is single-storey double fronted Victorian weatherboard villa of unusual form, having a squat T-shaped plan enveloped on three sides by a double return verandah (the latter subsequently rebuilt during the inter-war period). The house was erected during 1889 by Joseph Wild, a local builder, for his own residence.

How is it Significant?

The house is of historic, architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Port Phillip Why is it Significant?

Historically, the house at 2 Hotham Grove provide evidence of the dense but somewhat limited phase of residential development that occurred in Ripponlea during the prosperous Boom period of the 1880s, concentrated in the relatively small area bounded by Brighton Road, Hotham Street and Hotham Grove.

Architecturally, the house is significant as a somewhat unusual example of the ubiquitous symmetrical doublefronted Victorian timber villa, noted for its atypical plan form comprising aT-shaped footprint with a double return verandah to three sides of the building. Although the verandah itself was altered during the inter-war period, the house remains aesthetically significant as a distinctive element in the streetscape on this prominent and odd-shaped corner site.

Primary Source Heritage Alliance, Elwood Heritage Review, 2005

Other Studies Description

Occupying a prominent corner site, the house at 2 Hotham Grove is a single-storey double fronted Victorian weatherboard villa with a hipped slate roof penetrated by three unpainted rendered chimneys with moulded caps. The house is of note for its relatively unusual form, with a small projecting gabled wing to each side forming a squat T-shaped footprint, enveloped on three sides by a double return verandah. The latter, rebuilt during the inter-war period, now comprises a low hipped roof of corrugated galvanised steel, supported on turned timber posts (and one stop-chamfered post) that rise up from capped brick piers with a roughcastrendered finish. Presumably, the roof was originally supported by stop-chamfered timber posts, which have evidently been replaced (or, in one case, cut down) when the verandah was rebuilt. Otherwise, the symmetrical façade had a central doorway (with highlight and sidelight windows) flanked by rectangular windows with timber-framed double-hung sashes. The projecting side wings have pierced timber bargeboard to the gable ends and each has two windows – one of which opens onto the verandah space.

History Hotham Grove (originally known as Susan Street) formed part of a modest residential subdivision that was gazetted in August 1887. The City of St Kilda rate book for 1889 (dated 26 November 1888) records that Joseph Wild, a builder, owned land with a frontage of 70’9” (21.5 metres) to Hotham Grove, on the corner of Bell Street. The next edition of the rate book, compiled just over a year later in January 1890, records Wild (then identified as a carpenter) as owner and occupant of a new four-roomed timber dwelling, valued at £36, on his Hotham Grove site. According to the Sands & McDougall Directory, the house was ‘vacant’ in 1889, and occupied by one William Wild by 1891. Subsequent occupants included James Miller (1892-93), Miss Constance Giles, costumier (1894-95) and Alfred Brett (1897-98), Roger Cleghorn (1900-03), John Loller (1904) and F C R Spottiswood (1905). During this period, the house was listed in directories as 6 Hotham Grove and, in the first few years of the twentieth century, was also identified as Arden. By 1910, the street address had been renumbered as No 2.

Thematic Context Amongst the relatively sparse surviving evidence of Boom-period residential subdivisions in Elwood and Ripponlea, there are relatively few large detached timber villas with symmetrical facades. The most intact examples are those in John Street, namely a fine individual specimen at No 10, and the cohesive row at Nos 24-30. There are two examples in nearby Clarke Street, one (No 17) being more distinguished (if somewhat altered) than the other (No 1), and another altered example at 12 Hotham Grove. None of these houses, however, are truly comparable to 2 Hotham Street, which is of particular interest for its unusual plan form: namely, a T-shaped plan with a return verandah on three sides of the building. The MMBW map of Elwood (c.1897) shows that there were once a number of such villas in the area, albeit invariably of masonry rather than timber construction. Most of these, however, have been demolished. By far the most comparable example was the double-fronted symmetrical timber villa Ivica at 95 Ormond Road, which had a double return verandah and canted bay windows; the verandah, however, had been removed by the time that the house was identified in the City of St Kilda Heritage Review and, in any case, the house itself has since been demolished.

Recommendations Recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References Lodged Plan No 1622, dated 31 August 1887.

City of St Kilda Rate Book. South Ward.

Sands & McDougall Directory.

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7& 9 Hotham Grove RIPPONLEA

Constructed 1889

Category Residential:detached Designer unknown

Amendment C 54 Comment

New citation

Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

What is Significant?

The houses at 7 and 9 Hotham Grove, Ripponlea, comprise a detached pair of single-storey double fronted Victorian weatherboard villas with asymmetrical frontages. Virtually identical in detailing (twin rendered chimneys; bullnosed verandahs with cast iron columns), No 9 remains the less intact of the two, with tray deck roof in place of its original slate roof. They were two of five identical houses erected during 1889 by P J Murphy.

How is it Significant?

The houses are of historic, architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Port Phillip.

Why is it Significant?

Historically, the two houses at 7-9 Hotham Grove provide evidence of the dense but limited phase of residential development that occurred in Ripponlea in the prosperous Boom period of the late 1880s, concentrated in the small area bounded by Brighton Road, Hotham Street and Hotham Grove. As a pair, they provide evidence of a more substantial row of five identical houses that were erected on the north side of Hotham Grove by the same developer in 1889.

Architecturally, the houses are significant as representative and relatively intact examples of double-fronted Victorian weatherboard villas with asymmetrical frontage which, while common in other parts of the municipality (eg St Kilda, Port Melbourne) are somewhat rarer in Elwood and Ripponlea. As a virtually identica pair, they also demonstrate the recurring use of standard designs in speculative Boom-era subdivisions such as these. Aesthetically, they remain as prominent elements in the streetscape.

Primary Source Heritage Alliance, Elwood Heritage Review, 2005

Other Studies

Description The houses at 7 and 9 Hotham Grove comprise a pair of detached single-storey double-fronted late Victorian timber villas. They are, or were, more or less identical in their form and detailing: hipped roofs with bracketed eaves and pairs of unpainted rendered chimneys, asymmetrical block-fronted facades with hip-roofed verandahs. The house at No 7 retains its original slate roof, while No 9 has been reclad with metal deck.

Both also retain original cast iron verandah posts with Corinthian capitals; No 7 has plain columns and No has fluted ones. The houses have timber-framed double-hung sash windows and matching doorcases; the windows to the projecting bays have awnings with ripple iron (No 7) and metal deck (No 9) roofing.

The house at No 7 has a sympathetic timber picket fence, while No 9 has a brick fence.

History Hotham Grove (originally Susan Street) formed part of a modest residential subdivision that was gazetted in August 1887. Rate books show that, by the end of that year, six allotments on the north side of the street (numbered 5-10) were owned by P J Murphy, each valued at £9. The 1888-89 rate book (dated 26 November 1889) records that five five-roomed timber villas, each valued at £40, had been built on Murphy’s lots. Only one of these (Lot 5) was still owned by Murphy at that time, while the others had been acquired by White & Company, agents.

The houses at No 7 and 9 (then Lots 7 and 8) were originally occupied by James Dumbrell and William Walsh, both described as ‘gent’. By early 1891, the two houses were owned and occupied by Peter Cherry, a tanner (No 7) and Joseph J Haley, a civil servant (No 9), both of whom remained there for some years. The house at No 7 was still occupied by Peter Cherry in 1912, and subsequently by Francis Cherry (presumably his son). No 9, meanwhile, was occupied by J J Haley only until the turn of the century, and thence by Mrs Rosa Haley (probably his wife, or widow) until 1906, and a Miss R E Haley (presumably their daughter) until 1909.

Thematic Context Across the present study area, there are relatively few surviving examples of double-fronted Victorian timber villas with asymmetrical facades. A fine cohesive row exists at 20-28 Moore Street (part of a proposed heritage precinct), and there are also some isolated single examples such as 10 Hotham Grove. The two at Nos 7-9 are most significant as an adjacent pair, providing evidence of the former extent of a typical Boomera residential subdivision and, moreover, the repeated use of standard designs in such estates. In this regard, the houses can be compared to the few surviving rows of pairs of Victorian housing across Elwood, including the aforementioned row at 20-28 Moore Street (the most pertinent comparison), the row at 24-30 John Street (double-fronted symmetrical timber villas) and the two pairs at 54-56 Spray Street and 99-101 Tennyson Street (all double-fronted asymmetrical rendered brick villas, since much altered).

Recommendations Recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References Lodged Plan No 1622, dated 31 August 1887.

City of St Kilda Rate Book. South Ward.

Sands & McDougall Directory. Various

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42 Hotham St ST. KILDA EAST

Constructed c. 1927

Category Residential:detached Designer unknown

Amendment C 46 Comment

Incorporates the east st kilda heritage study.

Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage place.)

What is Significant?

The house at 42 Hotham Street, East St Kilda, is a unusually ornate bungalow-style dwelling, erected c.1927 for (and possibly by) bricklayer Harold Summers and his new wife Minnie.

How is it Significant?

The house is of historical and aesthetic significance to the City of Port Phillip.

Why is it Significant?

Historically, the house is a representative example of the type of housing that proliferated in East St Kilda in the 1920s, when large Victoria estates were carved up into new residential subdivisions. Aesthetically, the house stands out from the average inter-War bungalow by its intactness and its high level of decorative detailing, notably the unusual shaped shingles to the gable ends, and the extensive use of patterned and moulded brickwork, which extends to the matching front fence.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Heritage Aliance, East St Kilda Heritage Study, 2004

Description The house at 42 Hotham Street, East St Kilda, is a single-storeyed bungalow on a corner site. It is of tuckpointed clinker brick construction, with a hipped and gabled roof of red Marseilles pattern terracotta tiles.

The gable ends, to the two street frontages, are clad with timber shingles of a particularly unusual cusped form, and the eaves are supported on shaped timber brackets. The principal frontage, to Hotham Street, is asymmetrical, comprising a central segmental-arched entry porch flanked by a curved bay window and a broad verandah, now infilled with glazed panels. The verandah has a distinctive hit-and-miss brick railing with

bullnosed coping; this detail is echoed on the front fence, which extends along both street frontages. This brick walling has been unsympathetically altered by the addition of a tall timber paling fence.

History The site of this house formed part of an eleven-lot residential estate that was created in 1922 from the grounds of Mooltan, a large Victorian mansion. The house at No 42 first appears in the Sands & McDougall Directory in 1927 as a ‘house being built’ on the corner of Mooltan Avenue. The following year, it was listed as ‘vacant’ and then, in 1929, occupied by one Harold V Summers who, according to electoral rolls, was a bricklayer. It is possible, therefore, that he built the house himself. Research establishes that Harold Victor Summers (1888-1983) and his wife Minnie, nee Fort (1894-1967) had married in 1927, around the time that this house was built. They remained living there for only a few years. Subsequent occupants included Sydney F Palmer (1933), George Simpson (1935) and Daniel Blomme (from 1936 to at least 1940).

Thematic Context Comparative Analysis The California Bungalow is ubiquitous in many parts of the City of Port Phillip, including St Kilda, St Kilda East, Ripponlea, Balaclava and Elwood. It is less common elsewhere in the municipality; a rare example in Port Melbourne being that at 20 Ross Street (1929). Given the extent of closer settlement which occurred in East St Kilda during the 1920s, it is not surprising that some of the best examples of California Bungalows are located there. A number have already been identified as being of individual significance due to either their high levels of intactness, or because of particular stylistic influences or unusual integration of elements or decorative details.

Amongst those bungalows of relatively conventional design that are distinguished simply by their remarkable intactness are 26 Hammerdale Avenue (1920) and 186 Alma Road (1928), both in East St Kilda, and 521 St Kilda Road (c.1927). Bungalows with unusual stylistic influences include 331 Orrong Road, St Kilda East (1920) and 17 Robe Street, St Kilda, both with an oriental flavour; 109 Tennyson Street, Elwood (c.1920), which displays a pure American influence, and 18 Normanby Street, St Kilda (c.1920), one of several bungalows designed in an idiosyncratic style by local builder M Sherlock. Those examples which are noteworthy for particularly unusual detailing include 217 Alma Road (1918-19), with its tapered pillars embellished with river pebbles; 18 Lansdowne Road (1924), with its quirky canted front porch; 13 Baker Street (1920s) with its unusual stucco work, concrete awnings and bracket supports; 86 Mitford Street, Elwood (c.1920), embellished with river pebbles and unusual brick banding; 19 Wavenhoe Ave (late 1920s) with its atypical decorative brickwork. The example at 42 Hotham Street, with its quirky shingles and decorative brickwork, is not directly comparable to these five examples, beyond the fact that, like them, its unusual detailing makes it stand out from the more generic California Bungalows of the 1920s.

Recommendations Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme Andrew Ward, Heritage Review 1998 also recommended conservation.

References Lodged Plans No 8866, declared 16 June 1922 Sands & McDougall Directory. 1926 onwards.

Citation No:

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Terraces

Formerly

unknown

The Aven

ue

Hotham S

t

Identifier

2194

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO317

Address

113-119 Hotham St BALACLAVA

Constructed 1888

Category Residential:row Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

The terrace at nos. 113-119 Hotham Street, Balaclava. was built presumably by the contractor Leigh Farr for his father(?) W. Farr in 1888. It is historically and aesthetically important.

It is historically important (Criterion A) as a late Victorian terraced development demonstrating together with other houses in the locale how land was subdivided and developed during the Land Boom years, the housing areas to the west being heavily built up and dependant on the suburban railway service, in contrast with those to the east which were generally spacious villas on large estates whose occupants presumably travelled in their own horse drawn conveyances.

It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) as a prominent and isolated late Victorian terrace situated on the eastern edge of the suburban corridor centred on the Brighton Beach railway. It compares in this locality only with the surviving terraced developments in Gourlay and William Streets, closer to the railway line. Its aesthetic values may also be interpreted by comparison with other houses erected by Leigh Farr immediately to the south, nos. 113-119 being the most visually prominent on account of their two storeyed terraced form.

Primary Source Andrew Ward, City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998

Other Studies David Bick in conjunction with Wilson Sayer Core Pty. Ltd., St. Kilda Conservation Study Area 2 Vol. 1, 1984

Description A two storeyed stuccoed terraced row of four dwellings with plain parapet and central flat topped pediment in the centre of the row. There is cast iron lacework to the verandah friezes and upper level balconies and friezes, coupled Romanesque windows to the downstairs front rooms with vermiculated imposts and architraves, encaustic tiled verandah floors, dentillated fascias, a bracketed cornice and plain face brick end

walls.

Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, high front fences.

History S. Donovan and V. Callagher were the grantees of section 214B which extended south from Carlisle Street along Hotham Street to The Avenue. It consisted of about four and a half acres which by 1873 had been subdivided into lots 24 and 28 , the latter being the one on which the terrace at nos. 113-119 was subsequently built. At the time it was owned by J. Langdon.

In the 1880s, two houses existed on this lot and a third was unfinished. They were owned by Alfred Shaw, the chemist Henry Francis and the architect Nahum Barnett respectively . One W.Farr bought the properties of Shaw and Francis in 1887, demolishing them and dividing the land between the agent Arthur Farr and the contractor Leigh Farr , possibly his sons. By November 1888, the former had erected the terrace at nos.113119, living in one of them and letting the others to Sarah Beggs, the clergyman William Addis and the accountant Roland Woodward . The houses were possibly erected by Leigh Farr who built the three houses south of these in 1889-90, the middle one for himself .

In 1889 ownership of nos.113-119 passed to Thomas Farr, a gentleman who in the following year sold them to the town clerk of South Melbourne, F.G.Miles. The dwellings were described as brick, each with eight rooms and were let in 1895 to Jas.Fulton, a gentleman, Robert Henry Shackell, an auditor, Mary Nutting, domestic duties and Charles Hunt, a hydropathist.

At the turn of the century, H.R.Harvey owned the houses, leasing them to three ladies engaged in domestic duties, Marian Bennett, Mary Davey and Louie Sampson and the clerk Joseph Dodd . At the time they had the street numbers 163-169, continuing as such until the 1920s when the present numbering was adopted.

Thematic Context 4. Building settlements, towns and cities: 4.1.2. Making suburbs (Balaclava). expansion (Hotham Street).

Nineteenth century suburban

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References St.Kilda rate books: 1887-90, 1895-96, 1900-01.

Sands and McDougall directories: 1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930.

Parish plan, St.Kilda and Elwood. SLV Maps 820 bje.

J.E.S.Vardy, Plan of the Borough of St.Kilda, Hamel and Ferguson, Melbourne, 1873, South Ward, no.7.

MMBW litho plan no.47, dated c.1935.

Citation No:

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Residence

Formerly

unknown

The Aven

ue

Hotham S

t

Identifier

2195

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO317

Address

121 Hotham St BALACLAVA

Constructed 1888

Category Residential:detached Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

The house at no. 121 Hotham Street, Balaclava, was built in 1888 for the ladies Ackers and Brooke presumably by the builder/speculator, William Farr. It is historically and aesthetically important as a contributor to the group of similar houses on Hotham Street immediately alongside.

It is historically important (Criterion A) to the extent that it is one of a number of houses built speculatively by William Farr, a builder active in the area during the height of the Land Boom. In this respect it compares with the terrace at nos. 113-119, the adjoining houses at nos. 123 and 125 and other houses in the locale.

It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) for its surviving form and ornamentation which allow close comparisons to be made with other houses nearby also erected by William Farr, the stucco work, arched windows, asymmetrical form and cabled colonettes being elements repeated in his other work. This house, together with others like it, assists in the interpretation of speculative building processes during the Land Boom in this area.

Primary Source Andrew Ward, City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998

Other Studies David Bick in conjunction with Wilson Sayer Core Pty. Ltd., St. Kilda Conservation Study Area 2 Vol. 1, 1984

Description A representative asymmetrical stuccoed Italianate villa with bull nosed verandah and encaustic tiled floor, cast iron columns and lace, cabled colonettes and vermiculated quoins with ashlar markings to the cement work.

There is a faceted window bay to the projecting wing with Romanesque arched windows and a hipped roof.

Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, later cement tiles to roof, high front fence.

History J.Gatehouse was the grantee of section 219 which extended west from Hotham Street almost to William Street. It consisted of just under ten acres which by 1873 were subdivided into lots 29, 30 and 33 , the first mentioned being that on which this house was subsequently built, but at the time owned by S.McGowan.

Alfred Shaw owned the other two lots, each with a house, one of which may be extant at no.11 The Avenue.

The lots were subdivided and The Avenue formed in the 1880s. The Hotham Street blocks created on the north side became lots 1, 2 and 3. In 1887 P.Corkhill (presumably the builder Phillip Corkhill) owned lots 1 and 2 and the ladies Ackers and Brook owned lot 3. Each block had frontages of 47 feet and by November 1888, houses had been built there described as 5 rooms, brick, the first two including present no. 121 owned by the gentleman Thomas Farr. They were unoccupied, possibly having been just completed .

The builder, William Farr, built nine houses in Hotham Street running south from The Avenue and the first twelve houses in The Avenue on the south side at the Hotham Street end in the late 1880s .

Thomas Farr continued as owner of no.121 in 1890, the house at the time being let to the gentleman John Harris . The Farrs’ business may have failed during the depression as by the turn of the century the Northern Assurance Company owned the house, which by then contained seven rooms and was occupied by George Clark, a warehouseman . Subsequent occupants included James Goold (1910), Stephen Barker (1920) and Miss Sadie Barker (1930). The house had the street number 171 until the 1920s when the present numbering was adopted.

Thematic Context 4. Building settlements, towns and cities: 4.1.2. Making suburbs (Balaclava). expansion (Hotham Street).

Nineteenth century suburban

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References St.Kilda Rate Books: 1887-90, 1895-96, 1900-01.

Sands and McDougall directories: 1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930.

Parish plan, St.Kilda and Elwood. SLV Maps 820 bje.

J.E.S.Vardy, Plan of the Borough of St.Kilda, Hamel and Ferguson, Melbourne, 1873, South Ward, no.7.

MMBW litho plan no.47, dated c.1935.

Citation No:

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Residence

Formerly

unknown

The Aven

ue

Hotham S

t

Identifier

2196

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO317

Address

123 Hotham St BALACLAVA

Constructed 1888

Category Residential:detached Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

The house at no. 123 Hotham Street, Balaclava, is presumed to have been built by either William or Leigh Farr, both of whom were building contractors, in 1888. It is historically and aesthetically important as a contributor to the group of similar houses on Hotham Street immediately alongside.

It is historically important (Criterion A) to the extent that it is one of a number of houses built speculatively by the Farrs, builders active in the area during the height of the Land Boom. In this respect it compares with the terrace at nos. 113-119, the adjoining houses at nos. 121 and 125 and other houses in the locale.

It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) for its surviving form and ornamentation which allow close comparisons to be made with other houses nearby erected by the Farrs, the stucco work, arched windows, asymmetrical form and cabled colonettes being elements repeated in their other work. This house, together with others like it, assists in the interpretation of speculative building processes during the Land Boom in this area.

Primary Source Andrew Ward, City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998

Other Studies David Bick in conjunction with Wilson Sayer Core Pty. Ltd., St. Kilda Conservation Study Area 2 Vol. 1, 1984

Description A representative asymmetrical Italianate stuccoed villa with concave roof and black and white marble tiled floor to verandah, cabled colonettes, ashlar cement markings, vermiculated quoins and sills, Palladian window motif and slates to the hipped roof.

Condition: Sound. Integrity; High, high front fence.

History J.Gatehouse was the grantee of section 219 which extended west from Hotham Street almost to William Street. It consisted of just under ten acres which by 1873 were subdivided into lots 29, 30 and 33 , the first mentioned being that on which this house was subsequently built, but at the time owned by S.McGowan.

Alfred Shaw owned the other two lots, each with a house, one of which may be extant at no.11 The Avenue.

The lots were subdivided and The Avenue formed in the 1880s. The Hotham Street blocks created on the north side became lots 1, 2 and 3 which in 1887 were owned by P.Corkhill, probably the builder Phillip Corkhill who had lots 1 and 2 and the ladies Ackers and Brook who owned lot 3. The blocks each had frontages of 47 feet and by November 1888, houses which were described as 5 rooms, brick. By then the gentleman Thomas Farr owned this house on lot 2 and the one on lot 1 .

Corkhill was implicated in the collapse of the Premier Building Association in 1890 and it is presumed that either the builder William Farr or Leigh Farr built this house. Leigh Farr also owned a house in The Avenue that was occupied by Alfred White, an architect . Farr built nine houses in Hotham Street running south from The Avenue and the first twelve houses in The Avenue on the south side at the Hotham Street end in the late 1880s .

Thomas Farr continued as owner of no.123 in 1890, the house at the time being occupied by Leigh Farr . The Farrs perhaps realised some returns on their investments or perhaps their business failed during the depression as by the turn of the century the Northern Assurance Company owned the house. By then it contained seven rooms and continued to be occupied by Farr, still described as a contractor. . Subsequent occupants included S.M.B.Jones (1910), Harry Hadden (1920) and Robert Gregory (1930). The house had the street number 173 until the 1920s when the present numbering was adopted.

Thematic Context 4. Building settlements, towns and cities: 4.1.2. Making suburbs (Balaclava). expansion (Hotham Street).

Nineteenth century suburban

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References St.Kilda Rate Books: 1887-90, 1895-96, 1900-01.

Sands and McDougall directories: 1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930.

Parish plan, St.Kilda and Elwood. SLV Maps 820 bje.

J.E.S.Vardy, Plan of the Borough of St.Kilda, Hamel and Ferguson, Melbourne, 1873, South Ward, no.7.

MMBW litho plan no.47, dated c.1935.

Citation No:

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Residence

Formerly

unknown

The Aven

ue

Hotham S

t

Identifier

2197

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO317

Address

125 Hotham St BALACLAVA

Constructed 1888

Category Residential:detached Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

The house at no. 125 Hotham Street, Balaclava,is presumed to have been built by either William or Leigh Farr, both of whom were building contractors, in 1888. It is historically and aesthetically important as a contributor to the group of similar houses on Hotham Street immediately alongside.

It is historically important (Criterion A) to the extent that it is one of a number of houses built speculatively by the Farrs, builders active in the area during the height of the Land Boom. In this respect it compares with the terrace at nos. 113-119, the adjoining houses at nos. 121 and 123 and other houses in the locale.

It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) for its surviving form and ornamentation which allow close comparisons to be made with other houses nearby erected by the Farrs, the stucco work, arched windows, asymmetrical form and cabled colonettes being elements repeated in their other work. This house, together with others like it, assists in the interpretation of speculative building processes during the Land Boom in this area. Further aesthetic value is assigned to this house on account of its corner location and unusual ridge cresting to the window bay.

Primary Source Andrew Ward, City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998

Other Studies David Bick in conjunction with Wilson Sayer Core Pty. Ltd., St. Kilda Conservation Study Area 2 Vol. 1, 1984

Description A prominent stuccoed Italianate asymmetrical villa with reconstructed bull nosed verandah, faceted window bay to the projecting wing with Romanesque arched windows and cast iron cresting to the faceted roof of the bay. The cement work has ashlar markings, there are vermiculated quoins and colonettes to the front windows.

Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.

History J.Gatehouse was the grantee of section 219 which extended west from Hotham Street almost to William Street. It consisted of just under ten acres which by 1873 were subdivided into lots 29, 30 and 33 , the second mentioned being that on which this house was subsequently built, but at the time owned by Alfred Shaw who also owned lot 33. Both lots contained a house, one of which may be extant at no.11 The Avenue.

The lots were subdivided and The Avenue formed in the 1880s. The Hotham Street blocks created on the north side became lots 1, 2 and 3. In 1887 nos. 1 and 2 were owned by P.Corkhill (probably the builder Phillip Corkhill) and the ladies Ackers and Brook owned lot 3 on which the footings of the present house at no. 125 had been built. Each block had frontages of 47 feet and by November 1888, houses which were described as 5 rooms, brick. Ackers and Brook may never have occupied their property as in its first year there was no occupant recorded and in its second year it was acquired by the gentleman Thomas Farr. Farr leased the house to Philip Joseph, a cigar importer .

Corkhill was implicated in the collapse of the Premier Building Association in 1890 and it is presumed that either the builder William Farr or Leigh Farr built this house. Leigh Farr also owned a house in The Avenue that was occupied by Alfred White, an architect . Farr built nine houses in Hotham Street running south from The Avenue and the first twelve houses in The Avenue on the south side at the Hotham Street end in the late 1880s .

The Farrs’ may have realised some returns on their investments or perhaps their business failed during the depression as by the turn of the century the Northern Assurance Company owned the house. By then it contained eight rooms and was occupied by Jane McLean. Subsequent occupants included Edward J.Francis (1910 and 1920) and Mrs.L.E.Francis (1930). The house had the street number 175 until the 1920s when the present numbering was adopted.

Thematic Context 4. Building settlements, towns and cities: 4.1.2. Making suburbs (Balaclava). expansion (Hotham Street).

Nineteenth century suburban

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References St.Kilda Rate Books: 1887-90, 1895-96, 1900-01.

Sands and McDougall directories: 1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930.

Parish plan, St.Kilda and Elwood. SLV Maps 820 bje.

J.E.S.Vardy, Plan of the Borough of St.Kilda, Hamel and Ferguson, Melbourne, 1873, South Ward, no.7.

MMBW litho plan no.47, dated c.1935.

Citation No:

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

Flats

Formerly

unknown

2019

Hotham S t

Elm Gr

Oak Gv Heritage Precinct Overlay HO7 Heritage Overlay(s)

Address

169 Hotham St BALACLAVA

Constructed 1962

Category Residential:apartment Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

One of the most notable of St Kilda's conventional 1960s blocks of flats, the complex is well composed in a series of articulated forms and surfaces with the ground floor masonry walls extending from the building to form courtyard gardens and boundary walls. The variety of concrete blockwork used extensively for decorative effect is an additional important feature.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : International Three storey walk-up flats

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References unknown

Citation No:

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Attic Villa

Formerly

unknown

Oak Gv

Hotham S t

Identifier

2020

Heritage Precinct Overlay HO7 Heritage Overlay(s)

Address

173 Hotham St BALACLAVA

Constructed 1913

Category Residential:apartment Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

This Arts and Crafts house may have undergone some early alterations but appears hardly to have been touched since. It is notable for its overall intactness and its original weathered finishes.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : Arts and Crafts Attic villa Original owner: Capt J.G. Ormiston

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References

NOTES St K C C permit No 1941.

Citation No:

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Attic Villa

Formerly

unknown

Oak Gv

Hotham S t

Identifier

2021

Heritage Precinct Overlay HO7 Heritage Overlay(s)

Address

175 Hotham St BALACLAVA

Constructed 1923

Category Residential:detached Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

A prominent attic villa notable for its raw roughcast wall finishes and its heavy terra cotta tiled roof and jerkinhead gables. Its neighbour at 1 - 3 Oak Grove is built of the same materials and together the pair make something of a local landmark.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : Arts and Crafts Attic villa Builder: Hogg Original owner: Mrs M.I. Johnson

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References NOTES St K C C permit No 5067.

Citation No:

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

Sandringham Railway Line Road Bridge

Formerly

unknown

338

Hotham S

Av

t ll S Be

d nR hto Brig

t

r

Hotham S

Hotham G

t

St don Lyn Erindale

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO150

Address

Hotham St ELSTERNWICK

Constructed unknown

Category Public Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

The origins of this bridge are unknown, but it appears to be early and complements the abutments at Carlisle, Nightingale and Grosvenor Streets (q.v.) as part of one of the earliest railway lines in Melbourne. The beams supporting the roadway are presumably a replacement.

Primary Source David Bick in conjunction with Wilson Sayer Core Pty. Ltd., St. Kilda Conservation Study Area 2 Vol. 1, 1984

Other Studies Description see Significance

History The Brighton railway line, later extended to Sandringham, was opened in 1859.

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Victorian Heritage Register National Estate Register Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References unknown

Citation No:

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

Uniting Church

Formerly

Congregational Church

33

Cardigan St

Gr

Hotham S t

Lambert

Inkerman St Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO152

Address

72 Hotham St ELSTERNWICK

Constructed 1887-88

Category Church Designer Hillson Beasley

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

The former Congregational Church at 72 Hotham Street, St. Kilda East was built in 1887-88 to the design of architects, Beasley and Little. It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) as a highly successful design in full polychrome, comparing locally with the Toorak Jubilee Church (demolished), St. Georges Presbyterian Church (St. Kilda East) and the present Uniting Church (St. Kilda East). At the State level, it compares with many earlier polychrome churches but particularly with the former Wesley Church (Brunswick), the former Congregational Church (Hawthorn) and the former Wesley Church (Ballarat). The church is important also for its role as a place of worship in the community since 1888 ( Criterion G).

Primary Source Andrew Ward, City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998

Other Studies Description A prominently situated incomplete late polychrome brick church in the Gothic Revival mode with Oamaru stone dressings consisting of a nave, transepts placed beneath transverse gables and an octagonal turret.

The façade has a lancet arched west window enclosing a smaller rose window in the spandrels surmounting two entry doors, also with lancet arches, the visual effect of the complex polychrome brick and stone patterns being the most arresting feature of the design. Inside, there is a Fincham organ built c.1865-70. Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.

History Among the early independent churches in Victoria was the Congregational Church. Its parishioners and interests spread to East St. Kilda in the 1860’s accompanied by the desire for a purpose built meeting place.

An early church was erected in 1868 in Westbury Street on the western side between Inkerman and Carlisle

Streets. It was relocated in 1885 at a site purchased for the purpose of erecting a new church. The site was on the north east corner of Hotham and Inkerman Streets and had frontages of 100 feet to Hotham Street and about 166 feet to Inkerman Street. It was part of portion 161A, which had been purchased from the Crown by J.Sutherland and had in part, been subsequently acquired by E.Watson.

A Church Land and Building Committee requested submissions for the design of a new church in 1886. The design of architect Hillson Beasley,(prepared jointly with John Little), and who later became Chief Architect of the Western Australian Public Works Department, was chosen as the 'most suitable'.

Tenders for the new church were called on the 1 June 1887 and James Potter was duly appointed. The building was described as "...English style...brick with Oamaru stone dressings...a turret in front, and single transepts on either side. Ultimately a spire of 100 ft in height will be erected...accommodation...for 380 persons...complete cost, about 2,500 pounds...". The church opened in May 1888.

Changes to the property occurred from time to time, the most significant being the subdivision of the land and sale of the block on which the Sunday School stood to provide funds for alterations to the Church. The rear of the Church was converted to a hall with a kitchen and toilets and in the body of the Church, the furniture and organ were relocated. Accommodation was reduced to 150 people.

In 1954, an addition to the rear of the Church designed by Hudson, Stevenson and Howden and built by H.G.Jacobs and Son, made provision for a Sunday school kindergarten. The Church otherwise remains close to its origins.

The East St. Kilda Church joined the Uniting Church in 1977. Since then, the parish has gained strength and presently serves the community as its Centre for Creative Ministries.

Thematic Context 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life.

8.6 Worshipping.

Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme. Also recommended for inclusion on the National Estate Register.

References Parish Plan of Prahran, Borough of St. Kilda. SLV 820 bje.

MMBW litho plan no.47, dated 1935.

J.E.S.Vardy, “Plan of the Borough of St. Kilda�, 1873(?), North/7.

Jack Barnes, 'A History of the East St. Kilda Congregrational Church', East St. Kilda Uniting Church Parish Council, 1995.

Lewis, M.(ed): "Victorian Churches: their origins, their story and their architecture", National Trust, 1991, p.85.

Citation No:

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Formerly

unknown

Rath Ct

Alma

Rd St

Block of Flats

Hotham

Identifier

337

Wavenho e Ave

Heritage Precinct Overlay HO6 Heritage Overlay(s)

Address

32 Hotham St ST. KILDA EAST

Constructed 1927

Category Residential:apartment Designer Dunstan, Reynolds and Partners

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

This building is an unusual and distinctive block of flats in terms of architectural style. The strictly formal symmetrical design is a fusion of Georgian and beaux arts details, adapted to the new building type of this period, the block of flats. There are several blocks of flats in St. Kilda from this period in classically based styles, as well as a number in Melbourne generally. This building is one of the most innovative.

With the three houses across Hotham Street (numbers 27- 31) all variations of the same basic design and built by the same firm in 1929, it gives some idea of the diversity of architectural styles used in the latter half of the 1920's. These buildings form the Hotham Street group.

This building was designed by Dunstan, Reynolds and Partners, Architects for Architects Homes Corporation Pty. Ltd. and constructed early in 1927.

(David Bick, St. Kilda Conservation Study, 1985)

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies David Bick in conjunction with Wilson Sayer Core Pty. Ltd., St. Kilda Conservation Study Area 2 Vol. 1, 1984

Description Style : Georgian Revival Two storey walk-up flats Builder: Architects Homes Corp. Pty Ltd

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References BIBLIOGRAPHY City of St. Kilda building permit records, no. 6733 granted 1/3/1927, include working drawings.

City of St. KI1da building permit records, no. 7570 granted 10/9/1929, for nos. 17 - 31 Hotham Street.

Citation No:

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

Residence

Formerly

unknown

2016

Hotham S t

Mooltan Av

Cardigan

St

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO292

Address

45-47 Hotham St ST. KILDA EAST

Constructed c1920

Category Residential:attached Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

A substantial pair of residences with a distinguished symmetrical front elevation and shared garden giving the impression of a single house. The hanging of the fish scale terra-cotta shingles, shingled roofs to the chunky bay windows and the boldly projecting gables and bay windows are notable features. The front fence with its profiled brickwork is of a style more typical of the Federation period, and may predate the houses as it continues north to the two adjacent properties.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : Arts and Crafts One storey multi-unit residence

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References unknown

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

"Rocklea Gardens"

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Address

46-50 Hotham St ST. KILDA EAST

Constructed 1960's

Category Residential:apartment Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

A fine, well preserved and high quality example of apartment design of the 1960s. Features include the curtain glass walling and projecting balconies to the symmetrical front elevation, the stylish front entrance foyer with elevator and internal access to all apartments, the well maintained landscaping and the preservation of the original colour scheme, particularly the aqua highlights.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : International Three storey flats with elevator access

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusion: the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

Sched

References unknown

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review B'nai B'rith House

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Balston St

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2018

St

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Address

99 Hotham St ST. KILDA EAST

Constructed 1959

Category Church Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

Two aspects of this site are significant. The two storey religious institution (B'nai B'rith House), was built in front of a still existing c. 1890 villa in 1959. Despite being rather too large for its allotment, its architecture is of a high quality, demonstrating the aesthetic possibilities of the usually banal building conventions of the time. It has served as an important community focus among the Jewish population in this area. The remnant 1890's house, sandwiched between the 1959 building and extensive additions behind, can be clearly recognised by the extent of the hipped and gable roofs, remnant chimenys, polychrome brick walls and eaves detailing is historically significant as a demonstration of the early settlement of the area as one with substantial houses with generous front setbacks on very large sites (see 305, 366 and 382 Carlises Street).

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : International Two storey religious institution & former residence Builder: L.U. Simon

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References NOTES St K C C permit No 57/830 issued 3/8/59.

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

Terrace Row

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15-17 Howe Cres SOUTH MELBOURNE

Constructed 1869

Category Residential:row Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

15-17 Howe Crescent is of significance as one of the first developments built after the subdivisions of the Howe Crescent and St Vincent Place area and as one of the most intact terrace rows of the 1860s extant in the municipality. Its contribution to the streetscape of Howe Crescent and the manner in which the façade is decorated are integral to the significance of the row.

Primary Source Allom Lovell Sanderson Pty. Ltd., South Melb Conservation study vol. 2, 1987

Other Studies Description Original Use: Residences Date of Construction: 1869 (1) The first building development commenced in Howe Crescent in about 1865, the first land sales having been the previous year (2). These three brick terrace houses were one of the first buildings to be erected and the South Melbourne Rate Books list that in 1869, they were in an ‘unfinished’ state. They had been given an initial N.A.V. of £96 and were originally owned by a Robina Fordyce (3), who at that time also owned the property at 319-321 Clarendon Street (q.v.). No. 17 was listed as having eight rooms, while Nos. 15a and 15 were both of six rooms (4).

During the 1873/74 rate period the N.A.V. had jumped to a total of £190 for all three buildings. The occupiers at that that time were Robert Stoddart, described as a bank clerk (in No. 17), Robina Fordyce (in No. 15a) and Thomas Fordyce, a grocer (in No. 15) (5). Subsequent occupiers of the building have included civil servants, a draper, printer, clerk and an ‘agent’. In 1898 John Foley, a ‘gentleman’ had become the owner of the property (6).

The terrace row is one of the more opulently designed in South Melbourne and it creates a strong line following the crescent form of the street. They have rendered facades ruled to represent ashlar blocks, that have been left quite plain behind the two storeyed verandah. In contrast, the wing walls and parapet have a plethora of detailing including foliated mouldings capping the wing walls, lions masks, festoons, swags and two designs of urns across the parapet. The decoration was extended to the chimneys that while not all intact, are heavily moulded and bracketed. The verandah decoration is only partially intact, however it reflects the relatively early date of the row, with simple regimented cast iron to the balustrade combined with timber brackets. The cast iron fence has an unusual design to its picket heads and is intact, however the paths and verandah do not retain their original detailing.

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: National Estate Register Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References 1 City of South Melbourne Rate Books, 18 2 P. Sanderson; Investigation Project, University of Melbourne 1980 3 ibid., Refer Citation No‌/‌ for 319-321 Clarendon Street 4 ibid.

5 ibid., 1873/74 6 ibid., 1898/99

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

House

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989

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22 Howe Cres SOUTH MELBOURNE

Constructed 1890

Category Residential:detached Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

22 Howe Crescent is of significance as one of the most intact examples of a late-Victorian house in the South Melbourne municipality. Built with a terrace form and fine detailing, it is an integral component of the Victorian buildings along the Howe Crescent streetscape.

Primary Source Allom Lovell Sanderson Pty. Ltd., South Melb Conservation study vol. 2, 1987

Other Studies Description Original Use: Residence Date of Construction: 1890 (1) It is highly plausible that Redfern, a South Melbourne builder and the original owner, was responsible for the construction of this ten-roomed house. He purchased the vacant land from Patrick Cleary (2) an accountant and immediately prior to the 1890s depression erected this substantial residence. It attracted an initial N.A.V. of ÂŁ100 (3). By 1895, the building had halved its N.A.V. to ÂŁ50 (4), presumably as a direct result of the depression years and by 1898 it was, rather inconsistently, described as having only seven rooms (5).

The house is a substantial two storeyed rendered building, built in a terrace form with a two storeyed verandah. The walls have been left quite plain except for a foliated string course at ground floor level and the twisted colonettes that flank the ground floor windows. The cast iron to the verandah is a particularly elegant design and is substantially intact, while the verandah is relatively unusual for retaining the timber bracket decoration to the fascia between its two levels. The front door, while typical of the period, is a fine example of a six panel door with sidelights and fanlight, while the verandah retains intact its encaustic tile floor, and the chimneys, their render mouldings.

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References 1 City of South Melbourne Rate Books 1889-1891 2 ibid.

3 ibid.

4 ibid, 1895/96 5 ibid. 1898/99

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

Former Barrett Residence

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St rars Fer

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30 Howe Cres SOUTH MELBOURNE

Constructed 1867, 1877

Category Residential:detached Designer William H. Ellerker

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

The former Barrett residence is of significance as one of the most commanding Italianate houses in South Melbourne and as one of the first buildings built after the subdivision of Howe Crescent, to house one of the area’s most prominent families. The substantially intact nature of the stable block and the front fence are integral to the significance of the whole.

Primary Source Allom Lovell Sanderson Pty. Ltd., South Melb Conservation study vol. 2, 1987

Other Studies Description Original Use: Residence Date of Construction: 1867 (1), additions 1877 (2) Architect: William Henry Ellerker (3), additions, W.H. Ellerker & Co (4) This twelve-roomed brick residence was built for Dr James Barrett in 1867 (5) and as such was one of the first buildings to be built in the Howe Crescent/St Vincent Place subdivision. By 1869 the property included stables, a coach house and out offices, and its N.A.V. was recorded at ÂŁ160 (6), while in 1877 it is recorded as having had additions by the same architects, although the extent of these is not immediately evident.

Barrett was a surgeon and South Melbourne general practitioner from the late 1860s until the turn of the century (7) and five of his children were also medical practitioners, including Sir James William Barrett, a noted opthalmologist and publicist and Edity Ellen who was active in many voluntary organisations concerned with the medical and social conditions of women and children (8).

Following the death of Barrett, the building was sold to Dr T.J.K. Whittam in 1920 (9) and in the 1950s it was converted into five apartments (10). In October, 1971, the building was acquired by the Victorian Chapter of

the Royal Australian Institute of Architects as its headquarter and named ‘Robert Russell House’ (11).

The Barrett residence is a most commanding two storeyed rendered house with a symmetrical Italianate façade onto Howe Crescent. The house is built close to the pavement and the entrance extends out to the pavement line with a shallow Tuscan portico, while rising above the entrance is a squat tower with bracketed cornice line and balustraded parapet. The front façade is stepped back at first floor level and the projecting rooms at ground floor level are enframed by a shallow system of pilasters and crowned by an Italianate balustrade to the balcony above.

The house has a fine, bracketed eaves line and chimneys decorated with a series of blind arches continuing the Italianate references. It remains, externally, substantially intact including the six panelled front door, the cast iron fence, and the weatherboard stable block with its loft hoist and dovecote apertures. It is unfortunate that one of the chimneys has been altered at the top, and new openings have been set into the walls of the stable block.

In its symmetrical Italianate form the house is unusual in Melbourne, despite applying a very familiar vocabulary. Its stepped façade is reminiscent of the composition of ‘Hazelwood Terrace’ at Nos. 46-48 Howe Crescent and Nos. 41-42 Howe Crescent (q.q.v.), both built two years earlier.

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Victorian Heritage Register National Estate Register Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References 1 Architects’ Index, University of Melbourne 2 ibid.

3 ibid.

4 ibid.

5 National Trust of Aust. (Vic.), ‘Research into 30 Howe Crescent …’, 17 April 1979 6 ibid.

7 ibid.

8 ibid., ‘Further research into 30 Howe Crescent …’, 19 November 1979 9 ibid., ‘Research into 30 Howe …’.

10 ibid.

11 ibid.

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

Former Congregational Church and Hall

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Address

32 Howe Cres SOUTH MELBOURNE

Constructed 1867-8, 1874-5

Category Church Designer Crouch and Wilson, W. H. Ellerker

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

NB The following citation has been quoted from the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) File No. 2824. "Two successive Congregational churches which epitomise the mainstream of the bichrome and polychrome brick church architecture of Victoria between the 1860s and the 1880s, as well as relating well and deliberately to each other. The first church (later hall) was built in l867-8 to the design of the ecclesiastically prolific firm of Crouch and Wilson, and is now, after Joseph Reed's St. Jude's, Carlton (of the previous year) the oldest fully fledged polychrome church surviving in Melbourne. The second church of 1874-5 is a fine design by W.H. Ellerker, with a triple gable end and decorative polychrome friezes running up the gables, and a most distinctive galleried and plaster-vaulted interior."

Primary Source Allom Lovell Sanderson Pty. Ltd., South Melb Conservation study vol. 2, 1987

Other Studies Description Original Use: Congregational Church and Hall Date of Construction: lst church, later hall - 1867-8 2nd Church - 1874-5 Architect: 1st church, later hall - Crouch and Wilson 2nd Church - W.H. Ellerker The Congregational Church was formed in South Melbourne in 1859, holding its services in the 'Great Iron Store', and later in the Mechanics' Institute. By the end of 1865 a wooden church had been erected on this site and this was replaced by the northern of these two buildings in 1868, that was to later become the church hall. With the increase in congregation, the church was replaced by that to the south in 1874-75.

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Victorian Heritage Register National Estate Register Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References unknown

Citation No:

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

Houses

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39-40 Howe Cres SOUTH MELBOURNE

Constructed 1867

Category Residential:attached Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

39-40 Howe Crescent are of significance as a substantial pair of houses built soon after the subdivision of the St. Vincent Place/Howe Crescent area, that were given an elegance in their overall design and in their detailing that was in keeping with the pretensions of the Crescent. The verandah detailing, valences and the rear facades are integral to the significance of the whole.

Primary Source Allom Lovell Sanderson Pty. Ltd., South Melb Conservation study vol. 2, 1987

Other Studies Description Original Use: Residences Date of Construction: 1867 (1) In 1866, the year after the Howe Crescent area was subdivided, John Cole, locksmith, owned land with the dimensions of 70 by 60 feet in Howe Crescent (2). In 1867, two attached seven-roomed brick dwellings were erected on the site and both properties had an initial N.A.V. of ÂŁ80 (3). The following year their joint N.A.V. had increased to ÂŁ240 (4). Cole occupied No. 39 for one year while he let No. 40 to George Oldham, a teacher (5). By 1881 George Leverett, an engraver, owned and occupied No. 40; the property (6) by then described as two ten-roomed dwellings with stables adjoining No. 40. At this time Leverett also had financial interests in the two houses at 324-326 Albert road (q.v.) and by 1887, he owned Nos 41-42 Howe Crescent next door (q.v.).

This is one of the most elegant pairs of houses in South Melbourne and as would be expected of the buildings of the Howe Crescent subdivision, they are substantial in size. They clearly reflect their relatively early date of construction and are very similar in effect, if not detail, to Nos. 41-42 next door (q.v.). Their composition adds

to the effect of size; the entrance doors having been set at each side to give the effect of a single house rather than a pair of houses. The box-like hipped building has plain walls of tuckpointed Hawthorn bricks and is embellished with a very finely detailed, single-storeyed timber verandah. The verandah has a combination of stop chamfered coupled posts, turned drops and a lattice frieze and remains almost completely intact, returning around to embrace the side entrance doors. The only other decorative devices on the faรงade are the fluted valences above the first floor windows, although these are also practical, having been built to house external venetian blinds. The houses appear to remain substantially intact at the rear.

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: National Estate Register Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References 1 City of South Melbourne Rate Books, 1867/68 2 ibid., 1866/67 3 ibid., 1867/68 4 ibid., 1868/69 5 ibid.

6 ibid., 1881-1885

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

Houses

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41-42 Howe Cres SOUTH MELBOURNE

Constructed c. 1865

Category Residential:detached Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

41-42 Howe Crescent are of significance as a substantial pair of houses built soon after the subdivision of the St Vincent Place/Howe Crescent area, given an elegance of massing and detailing in keeping with the pretensions of the Crescent. Their design is most distinctive in the broader context of Australian architecture and marks a pleasing restraint and confidence.

Primary Source Allom Lovell Sanderson Pty. Ltd., South Melb Conservation study vol. 2, 1987

Other Studies Description Original Use: Residences Date of Construction: circa 1865 (1) The Rev. Hugh Darling was the minister of the Clarendon Street Presbyterian Church for ten years from 1864 (2) and it was during that time that he was the first owner of this substantial two-storey brick residence in Howe Crescent (3). From the beginning, in 1865-66, the building was described as having two apartments of eight rooms with a total N.A.V. of £180 (4). Darling himself occupied one half of the building for the first two years and Lewis Coleman, described as a ‘warehouseman’, tenanted the other (5). The property passed to George Leverett in 1887 (6), who also owned Nos. 39-40 next door from 1881 (q.v.), while tenants included prominent residents such as John Buxton, the South Melbourne auctioneer who was later to build ‘Hughenden’ in Beaconsfield Parade (q.v.), William E. Wells, an architect and Edward Clarke, a surveyor (7).

This pair of houses is one of the most elegant in design in South Melbourne. They clearly reflect their relatively early date of construction and are very similar in effect, if not detail, to Nos. 39-40 next door (q.v.), while the configuration of the balcony is very similar to Nos. 46-48 Howe Crescent (q.v.), designed by Charles

Webb during the same year.

They are a most substantial pair of houses combined into a unified whole as if only one residence. Clad in render, they are box-like in form, set under a hipped slate roof that extends out over a bracketed eaves line.

The front faรงade is most unusually composed, with a single-storeyed rendered balcony spanning the full width. The balcony is supported on two arched porches in front of the two front doors and brackets extendingout from octagonal bay windows to the ground floor. The houses gain, mainly through the overall massing, the configuration of the balcony and the simple render mouldings, a restrained elegance rarely achieved on buildings decorated with a plethora of render or cast iron decoration.

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Victorian Heritage Register National Estate Register Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References 1 City of South Melbourne Rate Books list the dwelling in 1865-66. Prior to that date Block 38 is not listed 2 C. Daley, 'The History of South Melbourne', p.175 3 City of South Melbourne Rate Books, 1865-1874 4 ibid, 1865-1874 5 ibid.

6 ibid., 1887/88 7 ibid.

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

Terrace Houses

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43-45 Howe Cres SOUTH MELBOURNE

Constructed 1881

Category Residential:row Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

Nos. 43-45 Howe Crescent are of significance as one of the few three-storeyed terrace rows to have been built in Melbourne during the nineteenth century and for remaining in a substantially intact state. The contribution of the row to the quality and continuity of the Victorian building stock along this part of Howe Crescent is integral to the significance.

Primary Source Allom Lovell Sanderson Pty. Ltd., South Melb Conservation study vol. 2, 1987

Other Studies Description Original Use: Residences Date of Construction: 1881 (1) When Charles Arnell, a merchant and tobacoo manufacturer from St Kilda, bought what is now 43-45 Howe Crescent from solicitor Charles Roy (2) it was land that had been listed as a ‘garden’(3) for at least eight years (4). By the middle of 1882 this building of three thirteen-roomed apartments was being constructed and its first occupants, a year later, were Joseph Kind a clergyman, in No. 45, Henry Dodds an engineer, in No. 44 and John Freeman described as a ‘gentleman’, in No. 43 (5). In 1887 the building was given an initial N.A.V. of £335 (6), undoubtedly the most valuable property in Howe Crescent at that time. The 1890s depression severely cut the N.A.V. of Arnell’s property and by 1898 it had decreased by £200 (7).

Having three storeys, the terrace row is one of the most distinctive in South Melbourne and being set on the outward curve of Howe Crescent, it is in an exposed position that takes full advantage of its scale. The rendered façade is relatively restrained in its degree of ornamentation for the 1880s and is prevented from appearing too massive by the verandah only spanning up two of the three floors. The ground floor walls have

deeply incised banded rustication across them while the second floor is in plain render. By contrast, the more exposed third floor has double hung sash windows each with a projecting cast iron balconette. The terrace row remains substantially intact including most of the cast iron to the verandah, the cast iron fence and the cream and terracotta garden paving tiles. Only No. 44 retains its original verandah floor and it is unfortunate that the parapet across the row has had its ornamentation above cornice level removed.

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Victorian Heritage Register National Estate Register Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References 1 City of South Melbourne Rate Books, 1880-1882 2 ibid.

3 The nature of the garden has not been researched, although its N.A.V. of ÂŁ40 was most substantial 4 City of South Melbourne Rate Books, 1873-1881 5 ibid., 1881-1885 6 ibid., 1887/89 7 ibid., 1898/99

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review "Hazelwood Terrace"

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46-48 Howe Cres SOUTH MELBOURNE

Constructed 1865

Category Residential:row Designer Charles Webb

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

‘Hazelwood Terrace’ is of significance as one of the first buildings to have been built in Howe Crescent, and for remaining in a substantially intact state. It is an important terrace by the prominent architect Charles Webb and is of significance for the atypical form and boldly applied render decoration across the façade. It is an integral part of the Victorian character of the Howe Crescent streetscape.

Primary Source Allom Lovell Sanderson Pty. Ltd., South Melb Conservation study vol. 2, 1987

Other Studies Description Original Use: Residences Date of Construction: 1865 (1) Architect: Charles Webb (2) This row of three terrace houses was first described in the South Melbourne Rate Books in 1864 and was listed as a ‘house in progress’ (3). As such it was one of the first buildings to be started on the Howe Crescent/St Vincent Place subdivision, most not being commenced until at least the following year. Built as an investment for George Black, the terrace row was initially listed in 1866 with an N.A.V. of £80 for each house (4). Among Black’s tenants were Michael Gordon, a civil servant; Joseph Clark, a woollen merchant; and William Rocke, an auctioneer (5). The house passed to Harold Rayson in 1873 (6) and then to Samuel Lomax, a butcher, for a ten year period (7). By 1899 Sarah Lomax was the new owner of the three sevenroomed dwelling, by then with a total N.A.V. of £116. The occupiers were Frederick Johnson, a physician;

and Herbert Franklin, a ‘traveller’ (8).

This two storeyed row of terraces is clad in render and has an unusual composition, with a single storeyed balcony spanning the façade. The balcony has a render, chain-like balustrade and is supported on arched porches framed by corinthian pilasters that are set in front of the three entrances. Its configuration (but not decoration) is very similar to Nos. 41-42 Howe Crescent (q.v.) built during the same year. The façade behind has bold mouldings in render, giving an embellished effect, with foliated consoles flanking the pedimented windows at both levels, raised quoins dividing the three houses and a balustraded parapet spanning above.

The first floor windows have valences in a similar manner to those on 39-40 Howe Crescent (q.v.). Nos. 47 and 48 retain intact their cast iron picket fences, their slate and marble paths and slate flagged verandah floors.

‘Hazelwood Terrrace’ is a very fine example of Charles Webb’s architecture. While embellished, it is typical of Webb’s work in that it displays a restraint from over-ornamentation: a quality reflected in his buildings such as Tasma Terrace and the Windsor Hotel.

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Victorian Heritage Register National Estate Register Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References 1 City of South Melbourne Rate Books, 1864/65 2 Information supplied by Dr Miles Lewis 3 ibid.

4 ibid., 1866/67 5 ibid., 1866-1870 6 ibid., 1873-1882 7 ibid., 1884-1896 8 ibid., 1898/99

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

"Blinkbonnie"

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49-50 Howe Cres SOUTH MELBOURNE

Constructed c. 1866

Category Residential:detached Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

‘Blinkbonnie’ is of significance as one of the most intact and elegantly decorated houses of the 1860s extant in South Melbourne. Its wide single storeyed form and siting within its block give it a command over its site and while atypical amongst the other original buildings in Howe Crescent, it is an integral component of the Victorian buildings in that streetscape. The detailing to the joinery and the chimneys, front and rear, are integral to the significance of the house.

Primary Source Allom Lovell Sanderson Pty. Ltd., South Melb Conservation study vol. 2, 1987

Other Studies Description Original Use: Residence Date of Construction: circa 1866 (1) The first entry in the Rate Books for ‘Blinkbonnie’ was in 1866, when it was described as having seven rooms, being constructed in brick and slate and having ‘out offices in (the) back room’, the whole with an N.A.V. of £60 (2). As such it was one of the first houses to be built in the Howe Crescent/St Vincent Place subdivision.

James Smith (3) was listed as both the owner and occupier of the building in 1866 and for at least another 35 years thereafter. He was described as a teacher (4) in the Rate Books and was at one time the principal of the Dorcas Street Presbyterian School, while he also conducted a private college for a period (5). The head teacher at the Albert Park State School from 1873 was a James Smith (6) and it is possible he was the same.

‘Blinkbonnie’ is a most distinctive house that clearly reflects its early date of construction. It is unusual for South Melbourne in being sited well back from the line of the pavement. It is a wide, single-storeyed house symmetrical about a central entrance door, roofed with a high, slated hipped roof. The embellishment to the

house is both restrained and intact and is a very good example of 1860s construction. Except for the bracketed eaves line, the render walls are quite plain, with the main decoration being on the concave verandah with its intricate timber frieze, protruding brackets and timber drops. The chimneys too are most unusual and decorative, with coupled octagonal pots, impressed with patterning to each face. These are extant on both the front and rear chimneys. The front door has round-headed panels: an indication of its early date.

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: National Estate Register Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References 1City of South Melbourne Rate Books list the dwelling in 1866. Prior to that date Block 38 does not appear 2 ibid., 1865/66 3 City of South Melbourne Rate Books, 1865-99 4 ibid., 1869/70 5 'The Record', 20 October 1928, p.4 6 C. Daley, 'History of South Melbourne', p.244

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

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324-326 Howe Pde PORT MELBOURNE

Constructed 1939

Category Residential:attached Designer Housing Commission Architects Panel

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

324-6 Howe Parade is of state significance. It is historically significant as the first pair of houses to be constructed by the newly established Housing Commission of Victoria in 1939, the start of a massive program of provision of low-cost public housing in Victoria following World War II. Built as an experimental prototype, it was the precursor of the Commission's Concrete House Project. The Concrete House Project was of considerable importance as a large scale exercise in industrialised mass production of housing over four decades, culminating in the Housing Commission high rise flats of the 1960s and '70s. Technologically, while not the first built example of the Fowler precast concrete system, it is a key example of this construction technique.

Primary Source Allom Lovell and Associates, Port Melbourne Conservation Study review Vol. 4, 1995

Other Studies Description PRINCIPAL THEME: Residential SUB-THEME: Inter-War concrete houses ORIGINAL OWNER: Housing commission of Victoria LOCAL/PRECINCT CHARACTER: AUTHENTICITY Precinct Character (similar to 90%+ original adjacent, contributes to overall character of the precinct) BUILDING TYPE: Inter-War concrete house ORIGINAL RESIDENTIAL Public housing USE TYPE: PRINCIPAL MATERIAL: Concrete

ARCHITECT/ENGINEER: Probably the Housing Commission Architects Panel (Arthur C. Leith, Frank Heath, Best Overend, Harold Bartlett, Thomas Buchan and John Scarborough) BUILDER: Victorian Housing Commission PHYSICAL /STYLISTIC DESCRIPTION This semi-detached pair of houses was built as a prototype using the Fowler system of precast reinforced concrete construction. The building has a simple rectangular plan form and a low-pitched roof supported on closely spaced timber beams projecting to front and rear. It is the only house with such a roof, all subsequent houses at Fishermen's Bend and other Housing Commission estates having conventional hipped or gabled roofs. The wall panels, precast on horizontal steel tables, have preformed door and window openings with projecting surrounds to provide stiffening. Concrete nib walls project from the front elevation on each side of the front doors, partly enclosing shallow entry porches. The aluminium-framed windows are replacements of the original timber-framed windows.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 324-6 Howe Parade is virtually identical in design to the other later concrete houses on the Fishermen's Bend estate apart from its almost flat roof. The construction technique is clearly indicated by the expressed framing of the window openings and the corner posts. The extreme simplicity of the elevations and the flat roof associate the house with the functionalist Modern Movement style of the 1930s. The house is also similar in its simple rectangular form to the various prefabricated house types, mass produced in a range of materials, that were developed in Australia, Britain and the United States during and immediately following World War II.

History This pair of houses was constructed in 1939 as an initial experiment in precast reinforced concrete construction, following the establishment of the Housing Commission of Victoria in early 1938 and the design competition for the layout of the Fishermen's Bend estate. The house was constructed using a system devised in the 1920s by T.W. Fowler, a retired surveyor and farmer of Werribee. The Fowler system had been developed over a period of some fifteen years before being taken up by the Housing Commission. During the 1930s Fowler was advertising the system and contracting it out to developers. (1) The experimental house appears to have been designed by the panel of consultant architects appointed by the Housing Commission, made up of Arthur C. Leith, Frank Heath, Best Overend, Harold BartIett, Thomas Buchan and John Scarborough. (2) Following the successful completion of 324-6 Howe Parade, a total of 58 concrete houses were constructed at Fishermen's Bend in 1940. (3)

Thematic Context The Fowler system was one of several systems of reinforced concrete construction developed in Australia in the early twentieth century for houses as well as for commercial buildings and civil engineering structures. In the 1920s, S. B. Marchant built houses in Adelaide using his 'Monolyte' system, and the system was usedexperimentally by the State Savings Bank of Victoria in 1924-5. Also in the 1920s, A. C. Matthews developed the 'Self-Form' system which produced cavity walls. (4) The State Savings Bank also used concrete block construction at the Garden City estate and elsewhere in the 1920s. (5) The pre-cast concrete construction system used in this prototype was refined and developed by the Housing Commission over the next three decades. Additional estates of Fowler system houses were constructed in the 1940s at Albion Street, Brunswick, Croker Street, Newport, Curtin Avenue, Brunswick, Champion Road, Williamstown and at Oakleigh. (6) A significant development was the acquisition by the Commission in 1946 of the former munitions factory at Holmesglen, which was developed as a centralised concrete panel production facility for what became known as the Concrete House Project. (7) The Holmesglen factory operated until the 1970s, and produced panels for several thousand concrete houses as well as later for flats.

Precast concrete four storey walk-up flats were being built by the Commission in the 1950s, and in 1960 the first concrete high rise Commission flats were built at the Emerald Hill estate in South Melbourne. (8)

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Victorian Heritage Register National Estate Register Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References 1. A. C. Leith. The 'V H C' Concrete House. p. 3. G. Tibbits. 'The Enemy Within Our Gates'. in R. Howe, ed.' New Houses for Old'. p. 129.

2. A. C. Leith. op. cit. p. 49.

3. 'Building'. 25 November 1940- p. 25.

4. J. Clare. op. cit. p. 89.

5. G. Tibbits. loc. cit.

6. A.C. Leith. op. cit. passim.

7. G. Tibbits. op. cit. p. 130.

8. ibid. p. 145.

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Flats

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Hughend en Rd Heritage Precinct Overlay HO6 Heritage Overlay(s)

Address

13 Hughenden Rd ST. KILDA EAST

Constructed c1940

Category Residential:apartment Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

A fine block of flats in the Functionalist style, this building is significant for its distinctive site planning, with the flats set well back from the street and placed in a symmetrical arrangement around a generous lawned central court, and as an excellent intact example of this style with its streamlined corners, banding in salmon coloured brickwork and render and steel framed windows. The building is in fine condition and the gardens, hedges and original front fence are contributory to its significance.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : Functionalist Two storey walk-up flats

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References unknown

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

Vacant building

Formerly

J. Kitchen & Sons Pty. Ltd. Offices

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Ing les St nro Mu

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48

Rd ss Ro

St

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Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO164

Address

Ingles St PORT MELBOURNE

Constructed 1925

Category Industrial Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

The former administrative offices and staff amenities building of John. Kitchen and Sons Pty. Ltd., is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to demonstrate the scale of the company's undertaking in Port Melbourne as well as its long standing presence at this site, commencing c. 1858 when it was seen to be sufficiently remote from settled areas for a noxious industry. It is important also for its capacity to demonstrate the company's enlightened attitude to workers' conditions, accommodating a social hall for their enjoyment.

The building is important for its capacity to indirectly recall the products manufactured at this site which became in many instances household words throughout the nation. Together with the former premises of Felton Grimwade and Co. John Kitchen and Sons' operations survive as the principle industrialists in Ingles Street during the nineteenth century. Finally, the building has architectural significance as an exceptionally imposing commercial building in the Classical Revival manner of the inter-war period outside of the City centre.

Primary Source Andrew Ward, City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998

Other Studies Description An imposing stuccoed three storeyed office building in the inter-war Classical revival manner with rusticated pavilions, bracketed cornice and plain parapet. Visual emphasis is given to the central entrance by means of a stepped reveal in buff coloured cement with a polished granite architrave. The windows are steel framed whilst the faรงade treatment is carried in part along the side elevations. There are original partitions inside.

Condition: Sound. Integrity: High. There are other inter-war buildings associated with the operations of John Kitchen and Sons Pty. Ltd. on this site including the two and three storeyed red brick premises at the Ingles Street/Woodruff Street intersection. They exhibit a range of architectural treatments including a stripped Classical faรงade to Ingles Street having raised pavilions in stucco and red brick with stepped parapets and steel framed windows. There may be other elements of historic importance within this extensive

industrial complex.

History Mr. J. Kitchen arrived in Australia in 1856 and together with his three sons established the firm of J. Kitchen and Sons, the largest soap making firm in Australia. By 1890 it had premises in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland with its principal works at Ingles Street, Port Melbourne and at Alexandria, near Sydney.

Products manufactured included "Velvet", "Witch" and "Anchor" laundry soaps; "Persil", "the modern oxygen washer"; "Solvol" and "Electrine" candles. An important by-product was glycerine used for explosives, medicinal purposes and in the tobacco industry. The site of the works at Ingles Street had been chosen as a suitably remote one for a noxious trade from as early as c.1858. By 1894 it was occupied by the Apollo Candle factory at the Kitchen Street intersection. The administrative offices were erected in 1925. They consisted of a brick and steel frame on piles with a mosaic floor to the vestibule, polished Maple and plate glass doors and a social hall for the use of staff. The premises have been recently vacated. Founded as John Kitchen and Sons Pty. Ltd., subsequent company names included Lever and Kitchen, Unilever and Unichema.

Thematic Context 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. capacity.

3.12 Developing an Australian manufacturing

Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme. Recommended for inclusion on the Register of the National Estate. Recommended, subject to an interior inspection, for inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register.

References "The National Handbook of Australia's Industries", The Specialty Press Pty. Ltd., 1934, pp. 280-82.

"Advance", 7/25, v.2, no.7.

MMBW litho plan no.18.

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Joseph Hill Residence

les Ing

St

Formerly

He ath

St

St

Ba y

Piano Bar

No tt S t

Identifier

270

St ton Gar

St kford c o r C

Heritage Precinct Overlay HO1 Heritage Overlay(s)

Address

92 Ingles St PORT MELBOURNE

Constructed 1887

Category Commercial: residential Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

92 Ingles Street is of local significance. Its large scale and elegant, distinctive and elaborately detailed Classical Revival design are aesthetically notable and gives it the character of an urban town house contrasting with the more meagre surrounding houses.

Primary Source Allom Lovell and Associates, Port Melbourne Conservation Study review Vol. 4, 1995

Other Studies Jacobs Lewis Vines, Port Melbourne Conservation Study, 1979

Description PRINCIPAL THEME: Residential SUB-THEME: Brick houses, two-storey Commercial premises-Auction Rooms ORIGINAL OWNER: Joseph Hill LOCAL/PRECINCT CHARACTER: AUTHENTICITY Individual Character (Individual, 90%+ original different from adjacent) BUILDING TYPE: Brick house, two-storey ORIGINAL RESIDENTIAL Residence attached to commercial premises USE TYPE: ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Victorian Free Classical PRINCIPAL MATERIAL: Rendered masonry PHYSICAL/STYLISTIC DESCRIPTION This two-storey rendered brick building is constructed on the property line to both Ingles and Bay Streets. The principal elevations are designed in a Classical Revival style, with smooth rendered walls quoined at the

corners. The cornice has closely spaced brackets with decorative panels between. The main elevation, to Ingles Street, has a central breakfront emphasised by quoining and ground floor rustication about the central entrance. The tripartite ground floor windows to each side are elaborately detailed, with stop-chamfered mullions and lintels, moulded hoods supported on consoles with swags between and bracketed sills. The round-headed upper floor windows have moulded archivolt and pilaster surrounds with large keystones, and balustraded panels below the sills. The Bay Street elevation has similar fenestration and other detailing to the main elevation but is two bays wide rather than three, and has a central column of quoin-like rustication between the windows. The parapet may have been balustraded and pedimented, however, all embellishments are now lacking.

Although the building was described in the rate books as dwelling and shop, it does not appear to have been a shop in the normal sense. It is possible that the ground floor originally was used as an auction room by its original owner Joseph Hill, although it is unclear how large items were taken in and out .

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Large houses of this type, built on corner sites with symmetrical elevations built on the property line, and derived from the European tradition of town houses, were relatively uncommon in Melbourne. Two houses at 37 Docker Street, Richmond (1889) and 384 Church Street, Richmond (1885) are similar in form and siting, and both have broadly similar Renaissance palazzo styles. The Church Street house has round-headed windows, similar to those on 92 Ingles Street, with pedimented hood moulds over the upper floor windows.

The Docker Street house has a three-part Serlian window to the upper floor. Other examples survive in Richmond and also in Fitzroy.

History This site and the adjoining Allotment 10 were purchased from the Crown sometime before 1878 by J. Britton.

(1) The two allotments were later subdivided and sold by auction. (2) By January 1885 (and probably earlier), the land was owned by Joseph Hill, who was variously described as a fish salesman and auctioneer. (3) During 1887 he erected the present building at the corner of Ingles Street and Bay Street. (4) [Jacobs Lewis Vines. Port Melbourne Conservation Study]

Thematic Context This building was one of a substantial number of corner shops constructed in residential areas away from the main retail and commercial strip of Bay Street. Many of these buildings remain, though most have been converted to residences or for other uses.

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References 1.

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3.

4.

Plan of 'Sandridge', dated 21 May 1878.

Vale Collection. Vol. 6, p. 137 and Vol. 7a, p. 139.

Port Melbourne rate book. January 1887.

Port Melbourne rate book. January 1888.

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Formerly

Australian Motor Industries

Municipal

Boundary

St

Offices

St

Fe nn el

St

Ing les

An de rso n

Identifier

49

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s)

Address

289 Ingles St PORT MELBOURNE

Constructed pre 1894

Category Industrial Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance The former premises of Felton, Grimwade and Co., chemical manufacturers, and later Australian Motor Industries are historically important (Criterion A) for the following reasons: Together with the premises of John Kitchen and Sons Pty. Ltd. they survive as the principle industrialists in Ingles Street during the nineteenth century. Together with the premises of John Kitchen and Sons Pty. Ltd. they recall the early role of Fisherman's Bend as a location for noxious trades. They recall the well-known business of Felton Grimwade and Company, wholesale druggists and manufacturing chemists. Their association with Alfred Grimwade (1831-1904), public benefactor, is an important one, especially because he also lived within the Municipality, at the "Esplanade" hotel, St. Kilda.

Primary Source Andrew Ward, City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998

Other Studies Description A substantial two storeyed overpainted red brick industrial building with gable roof and continuous lantern, the faรงade having symmetrical pedimented pavilions with oculus vents, repeated at the south end elevation with the initials AMI in sheet metal (?) within. The cornice, parapet, arcaded south end and pediment details are in stucco. Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium, addition at north end, aluminium windows and exposed aggregate panels beneath. Openings in the pavilions appear to have been altered.

History In 1867 Felton, Grimwade and Co. purchased the wholesale drug business of Youngman and Co. The company moved from Russell Street to Flinders Lane where its importing business flourished. In 1870 chemical works were established on this site and as early as 1872 the Port Melbourne Council opposed the manufacture of sulphuric acid at its plant. Nevertheless, company activities from the outset were to include

the manufacture of sulphuric acid and other mineral acids including bi-sulphide of iron. By 1894 this building was the principal structure at Felton Grimwade and Co's. chemical works. By 1951 the complex may have been occupied by Arthur Vale and Co. Pty. Ltd., oil stores, Cotton Dressing Pty. Ltd. and the United Oil Co. Pty. Ltd. oil stores (S & M dir). Australian Motor Industries (AMI) was established in 1954 as the successor to the Standard Motor Company, a Melbourne based vehicle assembler for "Rambler" cars and the British "Triumph". This company is presumed to have occupied the building from around this time and was still there in 1973 (S & M dir). It also carried out some finishing operations on "Mercedes Benz" cars and was the first to make a connection with a Japanese manufacturer with a view to assembling Japanese vehicles. The Japanese partner was Toyota, which was ultimately to absorb AMI and continues to occupy the Ingles Street offices and manufacturing plant.

Thematic Context 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. capacity.

3.12 Developing an Australian manufacturing

Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme.

References Victoria and its Metropolis Past and Present, A. Sutherland, 1888, v.2, p.601.

Green, J., Mann, A., Rene, V, Beruldsen, J., "Bosch 40 Years Australia 1954-94", 1994, p.11.

Sands and McDougall directories.

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Flats

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unknown

King St

t

Inkerman St Camden S

Chapel S t

Queen St

Identifier

2025

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO315

Address

247-249 Inkerman St BALACLAVA

Constructed 1960's

Category Residential:apartment Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

A representative example of 1960s flat design, lifted above the low standard of the norm by the chequerboard composition of the facade balancing the voids and pierced concrete block of the balconies against solid bays of slender concrete block between. The projecting wing walls lend additional life and articulation to the facade, and the intricate moulded blockwork of the end walls is a characteristic example of 1960s featurism. The building is largely intact.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : International Two storey walk-up flats

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References unknown

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review

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Jervois S t

Inkerman St St

unknown

Blenheim

Formerly

Young St

Bridge Store Raglan St

Identifier

2026

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s)

Address

305 Inkerman St BALACLAVA

Constructed c1920

Category Commercial Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance This small shop is important for its fine and intact parapet design, with the fine roughcast render finish and crisp 1920s graphics making it a small landmark in the area.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : Vernacular One storey shop

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended Conservation

References unknown

Citation No:

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

St Kilda Council Depot Offices

Formerly

unknown

2023

Greeves S t

Barkly St

Inkerman St

Blanche St Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO294

Address

33 Inkerman St ST. KILDA

Constructed late 1930's

Category Commercial Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

Intact three storey office and amenities block. The heavy cubist massing deriving from the Dutch modernism of architects such as Dudok is articulated by rendered string courses and projections which tie the window openings together into strong horizontal bands encircling the building. The building is intact, and is an example of a quality public building of the late 1930s.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : Functionalist Three storey offices

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References unknown

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Telephone Exchange

Formerly

unknown

Greeves S t

da Rd St Kil

Inkerma n

St Market St

Identifier

37

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO160

Address

62-78 Inkerman St ST. KILDA

Constructed c.1949

Category Industrial Designer Commonwealth Department of Interior

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

The St. Kilda Telephone Exchange building at 59 Inkerman Street, St. Kilda, was designed by the Commonwealth Department of the Interior and built c.1949. It is important as one of the largest buildings of its type and representative of a period during which the Department produced a number of well resolved Modernist exchanges including the earlier Russell Street Exchange.

Primary Source Andrew Ward, City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998

Other Studies Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Description A large European Modernist derived public building of four storeys in cream brick with a dark brown brick plinth to sill height. Massing is characteristic of the Modern Movement at the time, the bulk of the main building which is itself pierced by banks of steel framed windows, is defined by a parapet capping and recessed upper level with upturned eaves extending to the building line and by the presumed stairwell and lift core at the west end. This element has vertical emphasis in contrast with the horizontal effect of the main windows and its impact is heightened by the narrow continuous vertical windows on two sides. The down pipes are also design elements springing from shaped rainwater heads. Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.

History In 1940, there were three lots of vacant land on the north side of Inkerman Street between Inkerman Grove and St. Kilda Road. They became the site of the St. Kilda Telephone Exchange managed by the P.M.G. Department c.1949.

Thematic Context

4. Building settlements, towns and cities. 4.2 Supplying urban services.

Governing. 7.5 Developing administrative structures and authorities

Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme.

References Sands and McDougall Directories: 1939, 1947-50, 1962, 1974.

Parish Plan of Prahran, Borough of St. Kilda. SLV 820 bje.

MMBW litho plan no.45.

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

Shops and dwellings

Formerly

unknown

Market St

d ilda R St K

Inkerma n St

38

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO161

Address

77-79 Inkerman St ST. KILDA

Constructed 1887

Category Commercial Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

The shops with upper level dwellings at nos. 77-79 Inkerman Street, St. Kilda, were built in 1887 for Eliza Dixon as an investment. They are historically and aesthetically important (Criteria A and E) as prominent late Victorian buildings adding diversity to the streetscape in their immediate vicinity.

Primary Source Andrew Ward, City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998

Other Studies Description A prominent late Victorian two storeyed corner block of two shops with dwellings above. The shops are stuccoed and pilastrated with Corinthian capitals beneath the upper level frieze and cornice. The parapet is at present without urns and there is a pediment over the corner splay. The rear section is of overpainted face brick on a bluestone plinth. The original shop fronts remain with some alteration.

Condition: Sound.

Integrity: Medium, verandahs removed.

History The south east corner of Inkerman and Market Streets was vacant in 1879. The land had a frontage of 28 feet to Inkerman Street and was owned by H.R. Harwood. It had an NAV of six pounds.

By 1885, James Dixon had purchased the block. It subsequently passed to Eliza Dixon, who built two brick shops on the site in 1887. Each shop had four rooms and an NAV of 40 pounds. The corner shop was leased to John Tilley, a grocer and the second shop to Thomas Cayley, a bootmaker.

Margaret Cayley had taken over tenancy of the second shop by 1890. She operated a dressmaking

business. At the time, the corner shop was let to William Marden and John Falconer who were painters.

The corner shop returned to a grocery store by the turn of the century and continued as such in 1920 when Leonard Mortimer was in residence. The second shop was let to Thomas Nest who operated a small goods business. The property was in the hands of the executors of Mrs Dixon at the time and was described as 'brick', the corner shop with 5 rooms and the second with 6 rooms. The NAVs were 70 and 34 pounds respectively.

Thematic Context 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.18. Marketing and retailing.

Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme.

References St. Kilda Rate Books: 1880-90, 1895-6, 1900-01, 1920-21, VPRS 8816/P1, PROV. MMBW litho plan no.45, undated.

J.E.S.Vardy, “Plan of the Borough of St. Kilda�, c.1873, South/1.

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Elmar Flats

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Unknown

Chusan S t

Lambert

Gr

Hotham S t

Identifier

2275

Inkerman

St

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO356

Address

290A Inkerman St ST. KILDA

Constructed 1940-1

Category Residential:apartment Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

Elmar Flats in Inkerman St, St Kilda, are significant because: - they are a well preserved example of Moderne style inter-war flat design (Criterion D2) , - it is also a building type and of an era which epitomises St Kilda and the growth of public and private transport networks in the suburb (Criterion A4).

Primary Source Andrew Ward, City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998

Other Studies Description This is a Moderne style symmetrically composed two storey block of flats, with a tiled hipped roof and patterned face brick walls. Bricks used include clinkers as the body brick and salt-glazed manganese as the streamline bands; the name is spelt out in simple wrought-iron outline, set off the face of the wall. Typically the central element in the street faรงade is the stairwell which has curved edges and a stepped motif in basrelief above the entry. Windows are generally paired and timber framed with horizontal mullions to promote the streamlining effect of the style. Parking is at the rear accessed by a drive on the west side.

The flats are currently being renovated and a high brick-pier fence is being erected at the frontage.

Condition: good (partially disturbed, well preserved) Integrity: substantially intact/some intrusions Context: Set beside a church and opposite an early house, both sited on the corner.

History These four flats, each containing four rooms, were first rated in 1940-1 as owned by the Uralla Estate Co. care of 16 Wills St, Gardener { RB}. Later a Mr FW Higgins was named in rate books, care of the Uralla Estate Co. Early occupiers included Leon Kinsman, a bricklayer; Bruce Lylle, painter; Arthur Simmelmann, tailor; and Jacob Safron, an engineer. The flats were built in an era of growth of public and private transport networks in the suburb, allowing location of speculative medium density housing (flats) along major transport routes.

Thematic Context Making suburbs

Recommendations G Butler, Port Phillip Heritage Review, Version 3, 2001 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References VPRO St Kilda Municipal Rate Book (RB) VPRS 8816, P1 North Ward; Longmire, A. 1989 `The Show Must Go On': 316-18 checked;

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review

St

Camden St

St Chapel

Inkerman

Evelyn S t

unknown

Linton St

Formerly

King St

Terrace Queen S t

Identifier

339

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO315

Address

255-269 Inkerman St ST. KILDA EAST

Constructed c. 1889

Category Residential:row Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

This building, with an arcaded ground floor, is a very unusual type of terrace for St. Kilda. Equally this type is not common in Melbourne's southern suburbs. It is surrounded by various other residential buildings, built either at the end of last century or early in this century, which together form the Inkerman Street (at Chapel Street) conservation area.

Primary Source David Bick in conjunction with Wilson Sayer Core Pty. Ltd., St. Kilda Conservation Study Area 2 Vol. 1, 1984

Other Studies Description unknown

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References unknown

Shops and dwellings

Formerly

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Identifier

Citation No:

34

Prentice S t

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review

t Chusan S

Balston S

t

Inkerman St

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO162

Address

268-276 Inkerman St ST. KILDA EAST

Constructed 1880

Category Commercial Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

The row of five shops at nos. 268-76 Inkerman Street, St. Kilda East was built for Dr. Ray in 1880. They are important as a prominent surviving development of the period imparting architectural diversity and a sense of history to the immediate environs.

Primary Source Andrew Ward, City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998

Other Studies Description A row of five late Victorian stuccoed shops with round arched windows linked by an impost mould and having a plain cornice and parapet, the upper levels being subdivided by party walls and coupled volutes at cornice level. Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium, verandahs replaced, shopfront windows replaced.

History Leslie and Prentice Streets had been formed by the early 1870’s and the land subdivided to allow for more intensive development than the surrounding allotments. The area had been partially developed although the land facing Inkerman Street between Leslie and Prentice Streets was vacant and formed part of the grounds of a house occupied by J. Ewing. In 1880, these grounds were subdivided. Doctor Ray owned the five allotments facing Inkerman Street and in that year, he built five brick shops with dwellings. Each dwelling had four rooms. Ray leased the shops to Alexander Allison (a baker), P.E. Matthews (a chemist), two shops to people named Wright and Reardon and Evelyn Reynolds (a grocer). The corner shops were rated higher than the three between them. The NAV's ranged from 30 to 50 pounds.

Ray had died by 1884 but the executors of his estate retained the properties and continued to lease them at the turn of the century. At that time, the shops were let to William Fairley (a baker), Annie Brown (costumier),

Mary Bryce (a fancy goods dealer) and Kate Fontaine (a grocer). One shop was vacant. The street numbers were 358 to 366 and the NAVs ranged from 18 to 30 pounds.

Thematic Context 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.18. Marketing and retailing.

Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme.

References St. Kilda Rate Books: 1880-86, 1889-91, 1899-1900. VPRS 2335, PROV. Parish Plan of Prahran, Borough of St. Kilda. SLV 820 bje.

MMBW litho plan no.47, dated 1935.

J.E.S.Vardy, “Plan of the Borough of St. Kilda�, c.1873, North/7.

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review House

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Hotham S t

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35

Inkerman

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Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO163

Address

290 Inkerman St, 71 Hotham St ST. KILDA EAST

Constructed 1913

Category Residential:attached Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

The attached pair of houses at nos. 290 Inkerman Street and 71 Hotham Street, St. Kilda East, were built by the contractor Albert Lambert in 1913. They are aesthetically important as representative buildings of their period imparting character to their locale on account of their exposure at this important intersection in the Municipality.

Primary Source Andrew Ward, City of Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998

Other Studies Description A large attached pair of Federation period houses in bi-chrome brick with dominant terra cotta tiled roof, chimney stacks, gablet and ridge cresting. The façade treatment consists of projecting wings with half timbered gable ends and arched ladder framed friezes to the verandahs with turned timber posts, the corner verandah overlooking the street intersection having a raised section with the rising sun motif in the gable end.

There is a porthole window and tiles to the verandah floors. Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.

History At Crown land sales S.J.T.Von Geyer purchased portion 157B which extended from the north west corner of Inkerman and Hotham Streets and comprised about 4.5 acres.

Albert Lambert, a contractor of Inkerman Street, purchased the corner block of Hotham and Inkerman Streets c.1910. The land had a frontage of 66 feet to Hotham Street and an NAV of 15 pounds.

Lambert subdivided the land to form two blocks, one facing Hotham Street and the other Inkerman Street. He built a brick house on each block in 1913. The Inkerman Street house became Lambert’s residence. It had

seven rooms and an NAV of 60 pounds. At the time, the house had the street number 380. The Hotham Street house had five rooms and was leased by Lambert to Leslie Watt.

Thematic Context 4. Building settlements, towns and cities. 4.1.2 Making suburbs.

Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme.

References St. Kilda Rate Books: 1910-16. VPRS 8816/P1, PROV. MMBW litho plan no.47, dated 1935.

Parish Plan of Prahran, Borough of St. Kilda. SVL 820 bje.

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

Citation No:

2306

Houses

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Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO398

Address

316-320 Inkerman St EAST ST KILDA

Constructed 1888

Category Residential:row Designer unknown

Amendment C 46 Comment

New citation

Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

What is Significant?

The three houses at 316-320 Inkerman Street are a row of almost identical single storey Victorian blockfronted timber villas with asymmetrical facades incorporating canted bay windows and ornate verandahs.

How is it Significant?

The three houses are of historical and aesthetic significance to the City of Port Phillip.

Why is it Significant?

Historically, the three houses are representative of the speculative residential development that occurred during the prosperous Boom period of the late 1880s. This phase of development, while widespread in Melbourne’s inner suburbs, was much less common in this part of St Kilda, where settlement east of Alexandra Street was typically characterised by large nineteenth century mansion estates that were finally subdivided during the inter-War period. These three houses are thus significant as an isolated remnant of this phase of development, and one of the most easterly. Aesthetically, the houses are fine and intact examples of the type of Italianate villas favoured by the middle classes at that time, characterised by block-fronted facades with eaves brackets and ornate verandah detailing.

Primary Source Other Studies Heritage Aliance, East St Kilda Heritage Study, 2004

Description These three adjacent properties are occupied by single-storey double-fronted block-fronted Victorian timber villas of almost identical form. The asymmetrical frontages have canted bay windows to one side, and verandahs with timber posts either stop-chamfered (No 316), plain square (No 318) or turned (No 320), and

wrought iron lacework friezes. The houses have hipped roofs, variously clad in slate (No 316), corrugated galvanized steel (No 318) or cement tile (No 320). The houses retain decorative eaves brackets, timber panelled front doors and timber-framed double-hung sash windows with moulded external architraves. All three have timber picket fences which, if not original, are sympathetic in style.

History The rate book for 1888 (dated 12 December 1887) indicates that one George Godfrey owned 100 feet of vacant land on the corner of Inkerman Street and Alexandra Street, with a net annual value of £30. The following year, the rate book records three new houses on the site, apparently owned by a Mr Pain, an agent, and described as one four roomed timber house and two seven-roomed timber houses, each with a net annual value of £50. A scribbled amendment to the rate book indicates that the vacant houses later became occupied by Messrs Costello, Greenwood and Roach. By the mid-1890s, the three houses were identified as Nos 428, 430 and 432 Inkerman Street; at that time, the middle house, owned by Derham & Darvy, was vacant, while the two others, both owned by Keogh & Allard, were occupied by Ernest Castello, a commercial agent, and Frederick H Lilly, a commercial traveller. By the turn of the century, Nos 430 and 432 were both owned by W H Allard, occupied respectively by Charles Bird and Henry Bascomb, with No 428 being owned and occupied by James Morris, a barber. At that time, all three houses were described as seven-roomed timber dwellings, with net annual values, respectively, of £26, £25 and £35.

Thematic Context Comparative Analysis Examination of MMBW maps, prepared around the turn of the century, show that residential settlement in East St Kilda was quite dense to the west of the railway line, but became increasingly sparse as distance increased further east. Indeed, to the east of Hotham Street, residential settlement was restricted almost entirely to substantial Victorian mansion estates on vast allotments. Speculative subdivisions of detached double-fronted timber or masonry villas, which proliferated in many of Melbourne’s suburbs in the 1880s, were somewhat less common in East St Kilda. The MMBW maps certainly indicate entire streets of such villas, namely The Avenue, Gourlay Street and Grosvenor Street, Balaclava. Most of their houses, however, were demolished in the post-war period, and these particular streets now consist overwhelmingly of multi-storey blocks of flats, with only a few Boom-era villas surviving – and invariably in a much altered condition.

Further east, on the other side of Hotham Street, there was a row of ten Victorian villas on the south side of Cardigan Street but this, too, has since been largely obliterated by post-war flat development, with only two houses (Nos 9 and 11) still remaining. Comparable housing on the east and west sides of Alexandra Street and the north side of Inkerman Street have also largely disappeared, so that the groups of three adjacent houses at 316-320 Inkerman Street, and around the corner at No 31-35 Alexandra Street, can be considered as the most intact and the most prominently-sited surviving evidence of this phase of settlement in the local area. Some similar housing still survives in nearby Empress Street, but this is actually located outside the municipality, in the City of Glen Eira.

Recommendations Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References Sands & McDougall Directory: 1890s.

St. Kilda Rate Books: 1887-1900. PROV.

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Brookes Jetty

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unknown Cav ell S t

Identifier

2036

Gr re ea p es ak Sh

de Marine P

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s)

Address

Jacka Boulevard ST. KILDA

Constructed unknown

Category Public Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance This small jetty is of significance as an important scenic element on the St Kilda foreshore. The maritime character of the structure is enhanced by its timber construction.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Jetty and stormwater outfall

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme

References

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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier

Captain Cook Memorial

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2027

Upper

Lower

St ton g llin Po

red Alf

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ade lan Esp

de lana Esp

St ria o t c Vi

Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO348

Address

Jacka Boulevard ST. KILDA

Constructed 1914

Category Monument Designer unknown

Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)

This monument, donated by St Kilda resident Andrew Stenhouse, is of local significance as one a small group of monuments grouped in an area originally coherently landscaped under the direction of the St Kilda Foreshore Committee. The monument has social significance in reflecting in its subject matter the emergent nationalism of the Federation period.

Primary Source Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan, St Kilda 20th century Architectural Study Vol. 3, 1992

Other Studies Description Style : Free Classical Monument A classically inspired granite pier supports a bronze statue of Captain Cook. The statue is a replica of a statue at Cook's birthplace in Whitby, England, by Sir John Tweed, RA. The statue was donated by Andrew Stenhouse, a resident of Beaconsfield Parade who, in cooperation with the St Kilda Foreshore Committee, donated a number of other structures for the use of St Kilda residents. The statue was unveiled in the presence of State and local dignitaries by Governor Arthur Stanley on December 7, 1914.

History see Description

Thematic Context unknown

Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme Victorian Heritage Register

References NOTES J.B. Cooper, 'The History of St Kilda', vol. 2, p.230.